MichaelGalvin
- Actor
As Chris Warner, Shortland Street's 'Doctor Love', Michael Galvin has survived five marriages, morphine addiction, an emergency tracheotomy, and unexpected triplets. The show's longest-serving actor left for five years in 1996, and acted in telefilm Highwater and movie The Climb. Acclaimed for Everly Brothers musical Blue Sky Boys, he has won awards for his writing, which includes fiction and multiple stage plays.
Screenography
Biography
When actor and playwright Michael Galvin came face to face with his hero — British actor John Hurt — on the set of 1997 movie The Climb, his mouth raced ahead of his brain.
"I used to have a picture of him pinned up in my locker at drama school. He walks in, says hello, and I hear myself say ‘I had a drama of you in my picture locker at school'. I was so flustered". The British veteran accepted Galvin’s mangled compliment, setting him at ease, no big ego on display.
Awards
2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Actor - Television: for Shortland Street
“I’m at the stage where I don’t care if people think I am a terrific actor or a terrible actor. Obviously, with an actor, you want to be famous, you want people to admire you and to admire your talent, but that’s not where I am any more. Do I enjoy the job and is it a regular income? Those things are gold. And if people enjoy it, that’s terrific.”
More information
Plays by Michael Galvin, Playmarket website
Radio interview on Michael Galvin's play Mannbannd, Radio New Zealand, October 2023
Extended interview, Sunday magazine, April 2022
Interview on his favourite Shortland Street moments, Stuff, May 2019
Interview on his many Shortland St weddings, Stuff, February 2014
Interview shortly after leaving Shortland St in 1996, Quote Unquote, December 1996
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