HollyShanahan
- Actor
After channelling an Irish accent on TV comedy Welcome to Paradise, Holly Shanahan reunited with co-star Ryan O’Kane for breakout movie hit Second-Hand Wedding. Shanahan scored a Qantas Award as O’Kane’s fiancee, desperately hiding her nuptials from a thrift-obsessed mother. Inbetween guest roles on Australian TV, she went on to play a detective struggling to balance marriage and job in the Kiwi edition of Underbelly. In 2020 Shanahan launched her own acting agency, HS Management.
Screenography
2024 As: Madeline Shepard Film
Hypothermia
2016 As: Mother Short film
2015 As: Tracey Lee Television
2015 As: Sandra Gardner Television
Underbelly NZ - Land of the Long Green Cloud
2011 As: Detective Carole Derwent Series
Awards
2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best Supporting Actress - Film: for Second-Hand Wedding
“She is a woman operating in a man’s world at a time when women were just starting to get recognition for being more than mothers and wives.”
— Holly Shanahan on her role in Underbelly - Land of the Long Green Cloud