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  • Actor
Jennifer Ludlam

Alongside a busy theatrical career, Jennifer Ludlam has acted onscreen both at home and in Australia (Sons and Daughters, Prisoner). En route, she has done award-winning turns as an ex-prostitute falling for an undercover cop in 1993 TV movie Undercover, and as news anchor Liz Whiteman in TV drama Cover Story. Ludlam won further awards when she played a put-upon mother in ensemble movie Apron Strings. She went on to appear in TV comedy Golden and thriller The Blue Rose, in-between extended runs on Shortland Street as hospital receptionist Leanne Miller. 

Screenography

Shortland Street - Billy McCaskill's birth
2018 As: Leanne Black Television
Grace Palmer on Leanne taking speed
2017 As: Leanne Black Web
Shortland Street - Pele Kruse's birth
2014 As: Leanne Miller Television

Awards

2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Performance in a Short Film: for Hauraki

2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best Lead Actress - Film: for Apron Strings

“Jennifer Ludlam is especially compelling as the desperately sad matriarch, ill-equipped to deal with her son’s incorrigible problems...”

— Joe Sheppard, reviewing Apron Strings on The Lumiere Reader, 11 August 2008

Related images

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Jennifer Ludlum (Lorna) in a scene from Apron Strings.
Photo courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Lorna (Jennifer Ludlum) and flowers, Virginia (Jodie Rimmer) and Virginia's baby (Agueer Deng) in a scene from 2008 movie Apron Strings.
Photo courtesy of the NZ Film Commission
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Jennifer Ludlum (Lorna) marches down the street to bring Barry his home cooked dinner in a scene from Apron Strings.
Photo courtesy of the NZ Film Commission