MorganaO'Reilly
- Actor
In 2008 Morgana O’Reilly showed her range playing multiple characters on sketch show A Thousand Apologies. Later, she was the housebound hero in both the TV movie Safe House (2012), and acclaimed horror-comedy Housebound (2014). Since then, she's been a fixture of local film and television (Mean Mums, Bust Up, Small Town Scandal, Friends Like Her, Bookworm), as well as international series (Wentworth, Neighbours, The White Lotus). In 2021 she starred in the Emmy-winning INSiDE, directed by her husband Peter Salmon; in 2026 the couple co-directed a screen adaption of her one-woman show Stories About My Body.
Screenography
Awards
2026 Actor Awards (United States)
Nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (with 25 others): for The White Lotus
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Actress: for Friends Like Her
“I've known I wanted to be an actor since I was 15, when I realised all my other dream occupations were just acting up to get a reaction. At one stage I told everyone that I wanted to be a gypsy, live in a gypsy fair and sell scented candles.”