PeterFeeney
- Actor
Peter Feeney is a veritable Swiss Army knife of the screen, with credits as an actor, casting director and acting tutor. Feeney's 20 year plus acting CV ranges from drama (as Rose-Noelle skipper John Glennie, in TV movie Abandoned), kids TV (Secret Agent Men), comedy (Auckland Daze), New Zealand-shot American shows (Spartacus), and film. In 2007 he won rave reviews as a mad scientist in movie hit Black Sheep.
Biography
Peter Feeney’s professional acting career kicked off in 1994 after an Honours degree in Politics and History from Melbourne University, graduate study in Moscow, and a Drama diploma from Auckland University.
Since then Feeney’s firm jaw has been a familiar screen presence. His headline roles range from playing maligned 1940s filmmaker Cecil Holmes (in 1995 documentary Seeing Red), to a deranged hunter (in 2000 teleplay Possum Hunter), to an eccentric father (2013 coming of age short film Birdsong).
Screenography
Awards
2003 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Performance in a Short Film: for The Platform
“Feeney as the square-jawed Angus is a perfect blend of mad scientist and Kiwi landed gentry who bravely suffers a scene which has him involved in the film's greatest indignity.”
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