Harry McNaughton

Harry McNaughton began his career on Shortland Street, before branching into other acting roles, as well as writing and producing. McNaughton played Shortland Street's proudly asexual receptionist Gerald Tippett from 2007 to 2012, and later joined the show as a writer. Since then, he has juggled acting (Funny Girls, Step Dave) with writing (Under the Vines, The Sounds), sometimes doing both on the one show. In 2022 he produced, co-wrote and acted in euthanasia drama The Pact, and shared an NZ TV award for scriptwriting with Natalie Medlock. He also acted in an episode of Australian anthology series Summer Love.

There's a lot of misinformation around about acting as a career choice — you have to love it. I think the majority of actors (or the good ones, anyway) are definitely not doing it to get double-takes on the street. Harry McNaughton in an interview with NZ Herald, 1 December 2011