LisaHarrow
- Actor
Lisa Harrow's CV marks her out as one of New Zealand's most prodigious acting exports. After starring in Twelfth Night for the Royal Shakespeare Company at age 25, she got serious about screen acting in the 1980s and worked everywhere from Iceland to Australia, as well as starring in Kiwi films Other Halves and Shaker Run. Alongside her acting, Harrow now campaigns for ecological responsibility on stage and page.
Screenography
Biography
As a child in Auckland, Lisa Harrow dreamt of performing Shakespeare. Already she had been won over by the sounds of words, "and the power of language to move and illuminate and to affect you."
In 1966 Harrow won an Arts Council grant to study at England's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. An extended "voluntary exile" would see her based in England for at least another two decades. A year after joining the Royal Shakespeare Company at age 25, she was starring as Olivia in Twelfth Night — the first time the RSC had offered a leading part to an actress fresh from drama school.
Awards
2014 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For Services to Dramatic Arts
1998 Independent Spirit Awards (United States)
Best Female Lead: for Sunday
1998 Istanbul International Film Festival (Turkey)
Special Jury Prize: for her performance in Sunday
“If I have an ambition now it is that I am going to find work to do that is hard and difficult to do and is therefore rewarding.”
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