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DonoghRees

  • Actor
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Donogh Rees began her long theatre and screen career after graduating from Auckland’s Theatre Corporate. Fresh from 1982’s Pheno was Here, the first of many shorts, Rees stole the screen as the image-obsessed Constance, for director Bruce Morrison. Since an award-winning turn as the injured writer in Alison MacLean’s Crush, her roles include three years on the nursing staff of Shortland Street, and Marilyn Waring in Fallout.

Screenography

2025 As: Judge Farish Film
2023 As: Hells Taioma Film
2019 As: Shirley Web
The Gulf
2019 - 2021 As: Susan Bridges Series
2018 As: Nurse Judy Brownlee Television

Awards

1993 New Zealand Film Awards
Best Female Supporting Performance: for Crush

“... thanks to a magnificently realised performance by Rees, the film's stab at the tone of the great post-war melodrama is an almost total success. ”

London's Time Out, reviewing Constance

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Roger Donaldson (left) chats with three key players from 1983 movie Constance: star Donogh Rees, producer Larry Parr and the film's director Bruce Morrison.
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