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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.

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.

Screenography

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

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