AlisonBruce
- Actor
With a CV that includes everything from judges to Amazon queens, Alison Bruce has often been cast as the strong unsmiling type. Yet two of her biggest screen roles completely break the mould: the fraudulent but well-meaning fortune teller in 2001 feature Magik and Rose, and the eccentric mother in award-winning teen series Being Eve. In 2019 she appeared on two TV shows in the same month: The Gulf and comedy Golden Boy.
Screenography
Biography
Alison Bruce was born in Tanzania, shortly after the country gained independence from English rule. Her father was a Kenyan-born Scot, and her English-born mother was involved in the theatre. The family moved to New Zealand when Alison was seven and a half.
Awards
2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Supporting Actress: for The Gulf
2019 Show Me Shorts Film Festival (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Actor: for Memory Foam
“[Alison Bruce] has long been one of the country's most technically gifted — and underused — actors. She has a face the camera loves and which, in this role, exudes exactly the required mix of warmth and pain.”