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MirandaHarcourt

  • Actor
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Miranda Harcourt's career has seen many notable excursions into screen work — from finding early fame on beloved soap Gloss to ambitious big screen drama For Good, which she acted in and helped produce. In 2017 she made fantasy The Changeover, with her husband Stuart McKenzie. As an acting coach, Harcourt has worked with everyone from Melanie Lynskey to Nicole Kidman.

 

Screenography

2025 Subject Film
2018 As: Ellen Peryman Short film
2018 - 2022 As: School Principal Series
2017 Co-Director Film
2017 As: Ms Parker Web

Biography

Miranda Harcourt calls herself "a great fan of variety and challenge". Harcourt has acted on stage, screen and in prison, ventured into directing, spent seven years as Head of Acting at drama school Toi Whakaari, and made a name in the international screen industry for her work as an acting coach.

Awards

2012 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress: for Tangiwai - A Love Story

2003 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress: for For Good

“Some of the world's best actors Skype her at home in Wellington at 4am, where, through a laptop propped on the family's ironing board, she helps them tackle the day ahead.”

Suzanne McFadden, in an NZ Herald article on Miranda Harcourt's work as an acting coach, 1 August 2015

Related images

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Cast from Duggan: Death in Paradise, from left: John Bach (as John Duggan), Toby Leach and Miranda Harcourt.
Kindly provided by Onfilm.
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Actress Miranda Harcourt, one of the translators for Strangers, signs to Sonia Pivac, the deaf actress who plays Kelsey.
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