HeatherLindsay
- Actor
Actor Heather Lindsay (now Heather Randerson) cemented her part in New Zealand television history as one of the original cast of the country’s first bona-fide soap hit, Close to Home. Alongside her theatre work, she enjoyed an extensive screen career in the 80s and 90s, acting alongside some of the biggest talents of the day.
Biography
In the early 1960s Heather Randerson (stage name Heather Lindsay) took her parents’ advice and enrolled at Wellington’s Teachers College and Victoria University. She’d always loved acting in school productions, but at that point in New Zealand, a national drama school was the stuff of dreams. Lindsay married in 1965, and became a mother to three children.
Screenography
“I’m proud of ‘Close to Home’. It was a risky venture, it worked, it’s high in the ratings and its developing its own integrity. ”