NicholasRogers
- Actor
Nicholas Rogers debuted in the title role of acclaimed 1985 feature Kingpin: Rogers played Karl, the teen bully fighting to stay top dog at a boys' home. The following year Rogers took on a very different role: in Mark II he was Eddie, "the conscience" (NZ Herald 's Barry Shaw) of a trio of teenagers on a road-trip. Reviewers from the Listener, the Auckland Star and the Herald all praised his performance.
“... the intense scene between Nicholas Rogers and Jim Moriarty toward the end of the film has the raw emotional power I’ve not seen in a New Zealand film since Smash Palace. ”
— Douglas Jenkin, in a November 1986 Listener review of Mark II
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Original 1986 Evening Post caption:
"TVNZ's first ever telefeature is coming! Mark II is about three young Polynesian men - Matthew (Junior Amiga, standing), Kingi (Mitchell Manuel, sitting left), and Eddie (Nicholas Rogers) who buy a shiny Zephyr and travel the length of the North Island. But living out their fantasy can have nightmarish aspects."
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Nicholas Rogers as Karl Stevens in Kingpin.
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Nicholas Rogers as Karl Stevens in Kingpin, 1986.
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