OliverDriver
- Actor
- Director
Oliver Driver's career has seen him fronting arts programmes and breakfast show Sunrise, and portraying everyone from villainous alien Mr Wilberforce to a sensitive sperm donor and a wacky nurse. The ex-Auckland Theatre Company artistic director has also done time with music station Alt TV, co-starred in chalk and cheese comedy Sunny Skies and directed many episodes of Shortland Street.
Screenography
Biography
Oliver Driver’s career has rarely followed a straight line. He’s spent time as an actor, director, TV and radio host, and been responsible for running both a TV channel and the country’s biggest theatre company. To make things even more complicated, he often seems to be taking on three different tasks at the one time; Driver has long been aware of the value of being creative in the widest sense.
Awards
2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter - Entertainment/Factual: for Frontseat
1997 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Best Actor - Television: for City Life
“I think the best stories, the best plays, and the best television shows stir up a conversation, and create a debate: the kind where people go out arguing about it afterwards.”