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Elizabeth Hawthorne

Actor

Elizabeth Hawthorne, ONZM, has won awards for her acting on stage and screen. Her extensive screen resume is high on fantasy and horror, including The Frighteners, Jack Be Nimble, and Hercules. In 2000 she won the NZ Film Supporting Actress award for her portrait of a Westie matriarch in movie Savage Honeymoon, followed by another award for her brassy PR woman on satirical series Spin Doctors. In Outrageous Fortune she played Ngaire Munroe, no nonsense partner to veteran criminal Ted West. She went on to appear in both seasons of local drama series Filthy Rich, and American lost at sea movie Adrift.

She’s such a consummate actress, and her characterisation was so perfect, that we had to give in. Producer Steve Sachs on Elizabeth Hawthorne winning the role of Maisy in 2000 movie Savage Honeymoon

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The Moon is Upside Down

2023, As: Faith - Film

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My Life is Murder

2022, As: Marianne Smalls - Television

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800 Words

2015 - 2018, As: Trish, As: Trish - Television

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White Lies

2013, As: Hospital Matron - Film

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What Really Happened - Votes for Women

2012, As: Lady Tancred - Television

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Nothing Trivial

2011 - 2013, As: Anne - Television

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Nothing Trivial - First Episode

2011, As: Anne - Television

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Amadi

2010, As: Jane - Short Film

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After the Waterfall

2010, As: Joanna - Film

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Made in Dunedin

2007, Narrator - Television

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Outrageous Fortune

2007 - 2010, As: Ngaire - Television

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Spin Doctors - Series Four, Final Episode

2003, As: Liz - Television

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The Respectable Addiction

2003, Narrator - Television

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Spin Doctors - Election Special

2002, As: Liz - Television

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Spin Doctors - First Episode

2001, As: Liz - Television

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Jubilee

2000, As: Charlotte Morrison - Film

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Savage Honeymoon

2000, As: Maisy Savage - Film

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Greenstone

1999, As: Caroline - Television

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Lawless

1999, As: Susan Ellis - Television

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The Bar

1997, As: Jen (Sarah's friend) - Short Film

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The Frighteners

1996, As: Magda Rees-Jones - Film

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Shortland Street - 1995 Christmas cliffhanger (truck crash)

1995 - 1996, As: Doctor Julia Thornton - Television

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The Beach

1995, As: Anne - Short Film

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The Last Tattoo

1994, As: Henrietta Simpson - Film

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Alex

1993, As: Maggie's mother - Film

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Jack Be Nimble

1993, As: Bernice (Clarrie's wife) - Film

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Shortland Street - Highlights from the first 15 years

1992 - 2007, As: Doctor Julia Thornton - Television

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The Shadow Trader (Part One)

1989, As: Margaret - Television

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The Shadow Trader (Part Two)

1989, As: Margaret - Television

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Hotshotz

1989, As: Janice Fraser - Television

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Heart of the High Country

1985, As: Miss Robertson - Television