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CarmelMcGlone

  • Actor
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Hamilton-born Carmel McGlone fell into acting while studying music. Her theatre work includes many legendary women: Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe, Aunt Daisy...plus ramshackle male Digger (in comical duo Digger and Nudger). In 1987 McGlone spent an “enormously enjoyable” six months on TV's Marching Girls, then ran around Wellington in a gorilla suit, playing a singing telegram worker in comedy Send a Gorilla. McGlone was nominated for acting awards for both — and for 90s cop show Plainclothes. She also acted in Emmy-nominated web series Reservoir Hill, and co-starred in getting older drama Hook, Line and Sinker.

Screenography

Madam
2024 As: Goldie Series
2023 As: Elizabeth King Film
2019 As: Mary O'Rourke Film
2019 - 2026 As: Petra Series

Awards

1996 TV Guide Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress - Television: for Plainclothes

1989 Listener Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Female Performance - Film: for Send a Gorilla

“It was very unusual for New Zealand television — somehow it slipped through. There were 10 women in the programme ... TVNZ were a bit scared of it. I think they thought it might leap out of the set and bite them. But it was just a nice lovely series. ”

Carmel McGlone on TV series The Marching Girls, in a 18 January 1990 Evening Post interview

Related images

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The main cast of 1988 movie Send a Gorilla: from left to right, Joy (Katherine McRae), Vicky (Perry Piercy) and Claire (Carmel McGlone, in gorilla suit).
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A scene from 1988 movie Send a Gorilla: Carmel McGlone, inside gorilla suit, battles two traffic officers (played by William Kircher at left, and Jim Moriarty).
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A scene from 1987 TV series The Marching Girls.
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