The multi award-winning Robyn Malcolm has become one of New Zealand's most beloved actors. Since joining the cast of Shortland Street in 1994, Malcolm has played a diverse range of characters. Her TV credits include TV movie Clare, soap satire Serial Killers, and her award-winning role as matriarch Cheryl West in classic series Outrageous Fortune.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Malcolm talks about:
- Getting the acting bug in school, despite the ballet girls
- How she thought Shortland Street would be her only TV role
- Discovering that the show's writers nicknamed her character "the slut in the cardy"
- The challenging experience of playing a cervical cancer survivor in TV movie Clare
- Career highs and lows — including playing an ex-porn star turned teacher, and kissing her friend Craig Parker
- The emotional intensity of WWl documentary Our Lost War: Passchendaele
- Feeling proud that Outrageous Fortune has changed the way New Zealanders see themselves on television
- How a prediction that her career would involve playing mothers and whores has come true
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 06 August 2009, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
