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OliverDriver

  • Actor
  • Director
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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

Power Rangers Ninja Steel
2017 - 2018 Director Series
Filthy Rich - Series One
2016 - 2017 Director Television
Word Up!
2015 Panelist Series

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.”

Oliver Driver in The Dominion Post, 11 May 2004