LuanneGordon
- Actor
Toi Whakaari graduate Luanne Gordon won a Best Supporting Actress Award for her first movie, 2001 hit Stickmen. By then she'd won the starring role in TV's The Strip, as a woman who leaves a sensible law job to run a male strip club. Nominated for playing a hardbitten detective in 2005 series Interrogation, she then largely left acting during seven years in England (although she co-starred as a Kiwi call girl in Irish comedy Sensation). Since returning home, Gordon has acted in quake drama Hope and Wire, was a key part of a euthanasia plotline on Shortland Street in 2016, and played mother to David Bain in 2020 series Black Hands.
Screenography
Awards
2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Actress: for Interrogation
2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Best Supporting Actress: for Stickmen
“We've yet to write a line that she stuffs up — in terms of understanding her character's motivation for saying whatever it is she's saying — and that's an astounding commendation in itself. Luanne displays complete emotional fearlessness and is absolutely committed to the role.”