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ElizabethHawthorne

  • Actor
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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.

Screenography

2025 As: Kath Monk Film
Friends Like Her
2024 As: Fran Series
2023 As: Faith Film
The Gone
2023 As: Rose Series
The Royal Treatment
2022 As: Nonna Television

Awards

2003 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Entertainment/Comedy Performance: for Spin Doctors, series three

2001 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to theatre

“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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