CatherineDownes
- Actor
Catherine Downes, MNZM, has won awards both for her stage directing, and her globetrotting one-woman shows about Katherine Mansfield. After launching theatre companies in Holland and the United Kingdom, she spent five years as artistic director of Christchurch's Court Theatre. On screen, she played one of the flatmates in early sitcom Buck House, and starred as a doctor in Epidemic. Time in Australia saw her win a Sammy Award for acclaimed Kings Cross drama Winter of Our Dreams. Later she acted in the original stage version of classic Kiwi play Joyful and Triumphant, and a 1993 television adaptation.
Screenography
Awards
1998 Member of the Order of New Zealand Merit
For Services to the Arts
1981 Sammys (Australian TV and Film Awards)
Best Supporting Actress - Film: for Winter of Our Dreams
“A powerfully executed work of art. ”