NevanRowe
- Actor
- Production manager
Former journalist Nevan Rowe made a high profile big screen acting debut as Gloria, the estranged wife of Sam Neill’s Smith in landmark feature Sleeping Dogs (1977). She also co-starred in 1980 kids movie Nutcase, as mad scientist Evil Eva. Rowe worked off-screen in casting and as a production manager, and in 1989 directed short film Gordon Bennett, starring Andy Anderson. She passed away in April 2016.
Screenography
Biography
Born in Dunedin, Nevan Rowe grew up in the South Otago town of Kaitangata. She began her screen career as a television reporter on the Dunedin editon of magazine show Town and Around. She also acted: touring a satirical theatre show down south with David McPhail and Derek Payne, and performing at Dunedin’s Globe Theatre. When the NZBC was restructured in 1975 she moved north to Auckland to work on talk show Speakeasy, but ended up joining Roger Donaldson’s production company Aardvark Films instead.
“I’ve always worked in film, starting out as a television news and current affairs journalist. When you're young you think you can change the world, but sandwiched between TV commercials and situation comedy it’s not so easy. I always loved acting and make believe so I decided to switch. You can still move people a little, make them laugh and cry and maybe change things as well…”
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