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JasonHoyte

  • Actor
Jason Hoyte

Since scoring Billy T and Chapman Tripp awards as part of high energy comedy duo Sugar & Spice (alongside Jonathan Brugh), Jason Hoyte has applied his ample talents to comedy, drama and radio. Often cast as the smooth-talking but dodgy man in a suit (e.g. taxman tale We're Here to Help), Hoyte has also narrated reality shows, and been a regular comical partner to Leigh Hart. He stole the screen in TV's Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, as dodgy guidance counsellor Steve Mudgeway. In 2021 Hoyte starred in web series Talkback, as a talkback host trying to insult his way back into the ratings; he also created the show, with Mike Minogue.

Screenography

2021 Writer, As: Malcolm White Television
2021 Creator, Writer, Producer, As: Malcolm White Series
2020 As: Farmer at the pub Film
2020 As: Sex education presenter (episode 4) Web

Awards

2003 New Zealand Film and TV Awards
Nominated for Best Short Film Performance: for Beautiful

“Jason played the vain, treacherous, shallow Steve so blindingly well I said to Danny [Mulheron] when he had gone that it was almost unfair to audition anyone else...”

Tom Scott, on auditions for Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, in a Dominion Post article, 30 April 2005, page E5

Related images

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Dave Henderson (right, played by Erik Thomson) acccuses IRD member Steve Arnett (Jason Hoyte) of dodgy behaviour, in an early scene from We're Here to Help (2007).
Kindly provided by South Pacific Pictures