JenniferWard-Lealand
- Actor
Kiwi acting legend Jennifer Ward-Lealand began acting at age seven; her first screen role followed at age nine. Since then she has starred in big screen dramas Desperate Remedies and Vermilion to critical acclaim, and appeared in a long run of television shows, from TV drama Danny and Raewyn to Australian comedy show Full Frontal.
Screenography
Biography
Jennifer Ward-Lealand is an acclaimed actor whose screen roles include singing, comedy, Parisian prostitutes, and working class Kiwi mums.
Aged seven, while at a theatre rehearsal with her father, "it hit me like a bolt of lightning that I wanted to act". As Ward-Lealand told E-Tangata in 2016, "I was very, very clear about that. Never wavered. Never knew how I was going to do it, but never wavered in my desire to be an actor."
Awards
2020 New Zealander of the Year
2019 Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For Services to Theatre, Film and Television
“I'm not interested in an actor's delivery of dialogue, that's a stage technique. I'm after subtext and subtlety and body language, and she's got all that. ”