PeterElliott
- Actor
Peter Elliott, ONZM has been a fixture on New Zealand television for more than three decades. Award-nominated for his role as the scheming Rex Thorne on 1980s soap Gloss, he would go on to win for tele-movie Until Proven Innocent, and spent four years on Shortland Street. Elliott has also guided viewers through New Zealand's history as host and narrator of shows Explorers, Captain's Log, and Frontier of Dreams.
Screenography
Biography
Peter Elliott’s first taste of a television career started with a hammer.
Before finding work in set construction, Elliott had a ‘wealth’ of jobs. “I call it a wealth," he says. "Other people would call me serially unemployed.” But at the age of 22, he finally found his calling — television. Building and painting sets for shows like Woolly Valley, It is I Count Homogenized and Grunt Machine made him realise he’d rather be in front of the camera than behind it.
Awards
2021 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to the performing arts and baseball
2012 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor: for Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield
“There are very few moments in a career that are truly memorable – but the moment in which you are most happy is when you are regarded as an equal by your peers.”
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