MarkHadlow
- Actor
From an early role as a teen bully in Children of Fire Mountain, Mark Hadlow, ONZM, has gone on to work beside Billy T James, Peter Jackson, talking hedgehogs and mutant huhu grubs. The veteran actor/comedian is fondly remembered for playing a wide-eyed farmer on hit TV series Willy Nilly; in Jackson’s three-part adaptation of The Hobbit, he was grey-bearded Dori the dwarf.
Screenography
Biography
Though Mark Hadlow has often been cast in comical parts as the gormless innocent (Willy Nilly, Meet the Feebles, Seymour in stage musical Little Shop of Horrors), his list of roles ranges widely, from Fagin to Riff Raff to Iago. The actor's origins are almost as difficult to tie down.
Awards
2017 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to the arts
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Entertainment/Comedy Performance: for Willy Nilly
“Mark Hadlow is the best physical comedian I’ve ever seen. ”
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