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AnnieWhittle

  • Actor
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Actor, singer, and comedian Annie Whittle first won television fame on 70s comedy classic A Week of It. Since then she has presented a run of shows, had her own musical special, and acted alongside the likes of Billy T James, Miranda Harcourt, George Henare, and Anthony Hopkins.

Screenography

Double Parked
2023 As: Rosie Television
A Love Yarn
2021 As: Ida Television
2019 As: Beth Film

Biography

Annie Whittle argues that her career has had its share of good luck. But Whittle's good luck is the kind that comes of trying — and being good at — many things. She has piloted planes, been a champion fencer, danced ballet, won awards for her music, and acted in Kiwi classics A Week of It, The Makutu on Mrs Jones, and The Billy T James Show.

Awards

2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress -  Television: for Piece of My Heart

2003 New Zealand Television Awards

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress: for Shortland Street

“Annie Whittle is Kiwiana. As familiar as Buzzy Bee, as perennially fresh and welcome as summer.”

Listener writer Alistair Bone, 11 June 2005