LouiseWallace
- Presenter
- Actor
- Journalist
Eclectic certainly describes Louise Wallace’s screen career: from baseball cap-wearing host of Mobil Sport, to presenting and reporting for current affairs programmes 60 Minutes and 20/20, to headline-grabbing reality TV host and participant (The Weakest Link, Celebrity Treasure Island) and acting (as a judge in Street Legal). In 2016 she was cast in Real Housewives of Auckland.
Screenography
Biography
Louise Wallace, ONZM, followed an education at Auckland’s St Cuthbert's College with an advertising and marketing diploma at Auckland Technical Institute (now AUT). She then pursued her dreams of becoming an actor with studies at London's well-regarded Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She went on to Sydney University, to complete a Bachelor of Arts in history and Australian literature.
Awards
2025 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to the entertainment industry
1996 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for TV Guide Best Presenter
“I relish the opportunity to become a gibbering, emotional, vulnerable mess because it actually shows I can act, that I've got range, because it's really easy to play a staunch cow.”