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PerryPiercy

  • Actor
  • Acting coach
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Actor and acting coach Perry Piercy's first notable screen role was as the mysterious Mary Carmichael in 1984 ghost story Mr Wrong. That decade she acted in female forward TV series The Marching Girls and Night of the Red Hunter, and co-starred in movie Send a Gorilla. The screenplay was inspired by her time working as a singing telegram. In 2000 she played bogan mum Louise Savage in Westie feature Savage Honeymoon, then co-starred in acclaimed short film Redial. These days Piercy is also a trained voice and dialect coach; her credits include period drama The Luminaries and Nude Tuesday, a comedy which uses an invented language.

Screenography

2022 Vocal Coach Film
The Centre Line
2020 As: Mother Television
Friend of the Friendless
2020 As: Joanne Guy Television
2020 Dialect Coach Television
Catching the Black Widow
2017 As: Karen Television

“For me on set it was 'how can I give the most succinct and useful note to the actor without disrupting their process or getting up the director's nose?'”

Perry Piercy on her dialect work for 2020 drama series The Luminaries, Radio New Zealand, 7 June 2020

Related images

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Joy (Katherine McRae, at left) and Vicki (Perry Piercy) perform a singing telegram, in a scene from 1988 movie Send a Gorilla.
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The main cast of 1988 movie Send a Gorilla: from left to right, Joy (Katherine McRae), Vicky (Perry Piercy) and Claire (Carmel McGlone, in gorilla suit).
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Perry Piercy on the job as Kerry in 1987 TV series The Marching Girls.
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Perry Piercy as Kerry in 1987 TV series The Marching Girls.
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A scene from 1987 TV series The Marching Girls.
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