IreneWood
- Actor
Irene Wood was showing her versatility in the early days of Kiwi television. By 1968 she had already been on screen presenting children's shows, singing, and playing Katherine Mansfield in TV play The White Gardenia. Since then Wood has acted in murder mystery Slipknot, Shortland Street, movie Rest for the Wicked, and won fans playing Nan for five seasons of Go Girls. In 2022, she won an NZTV Award after co-starring in The Pact.
Screenography
Biography
In at the birth of Kiwi television drama, back when it was "a three camera set up and repertory cast concept", actor Irene Wood has been in the game long enough to have seen many big changes: from the switch from black and white to colour in the mid 1970s — which she says some thought a passing phase, "like decimal currency" — to the arrival of high definition television, "which frankly does no one over 35 any favours".
Awards
2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Actress: The Pact
“Acting is a compulsive search for truth and approval. It's like rushing into someone's arms in the belief they’ll open them to embrace and hold you tight for just a moment. However, this double exposure of self and instinct carries no guarantee that they will. The trust is childlike and perhaps a little foolish, but without it we can trip or fall somewhere mid leap!”