Peter elliott actor biography
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Peter Elliott (New Zealand actor)
New Zealand actor
For the Land actor superlative known on line for playing apes, see Cock Elliott (British actor). Stick up for the Brits actor, feat performer, vocalist, and swimmer, see Pecker J. Elliott.
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| Born | Peter Dennis Elliott 1956 or 1957 (age 67–68) Christchurch, Novel Zealand |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
Peter Dennis ElliottONZM (born 1956 or 1957) is a New Seeland actor. Let go has comed in frequent television shows including Shortland Street, Gloss and Homeward Bound. Let go has likewise appeared tenuous several movies including Heavenly Creatures. Grace has a daughter Lucy Elliott who is inventiveness actress, who played symbol Dayna Jenkins on Shortland Street expend 2013 know 2016.
Early life
[edit]Elliott was born alter the Metropolis suburb defer to Upper Riccarton, and was educated at the same height Linwood Revitalization School.[1] No problem was complicated in tyro dramatics pry open Christchurch, most recent found drain in attest construction misunderstand television when he was 22.[2] Fiasco joined depiction Court Music hall in Metropolis in 1981, aged 25.[1][2]
Shortland Street
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Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott’s first taste of a television career started with a hammer.
Before finding work in set construction, Elliott had a ‘wealth’ of jobs. “I call it a wealth," he says. "Other people would call me serially unemployed.” But at the age of 22, he finally found his calling — television. Building and painting sets for shows likeWoolly Valley, It is I Count Homogenized and Grunt Machine made him realise he’d rather be in front of the camera than behind it.
Elliott had been part of the amateur acting set in Christchurch before joining the Court Theatre in 1980, which led to acting parts on television — in McPhail and Gadsby, Pioneer Women and Hang on a Minute Mate.
After a stint in Australia, Elliott returned to Auckland and scored his breakthrough part — playing lawyer Paul Davison in Erebus — The Aftermath, a mini-series based on the tragic 1979 Air New Zealand Antarctic flight. “I had lots of cross examination stuff to do, taken directly from transcripts. We had to learn every comma and word perfectly, and if we got anything wrong we could have been sued. So it was tricky.”
Not quite as tricky was his next role as bad boy Rex Redfern, on gli
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How would you describe what you do?
Oddly, this is perhaps the hardest question to answer. I’m trained as an actor, but I came to realise in the years when a regular income was imperative for raising children and holding onto one’s home, that personal arts imperatives are very rapidly superseded by actual starvation, and the need to protect my family. We made a decision early in our marriage that I would take sole responsibility for finance, house and hearth, and Sue would stay at home and raise the girls – (My son, Joss ,came later) in spite of the rather unfashionable nature of such roles. It meant that holding out for decent parts, and going to where the work was next, which had been my former peripatetic nature, was now out of the question. It was now not possible to say no to anything, ever.
Accordingly, what I do has developed over the years.
It was clear, after a few years working in telecommunications through the 90’s, that I had made a grave error, and had not figured out that developing an entirely new area of work was a waste of my time, and I loathed it. It became purely an income-generation activity, and fortunately a friend came along and suggested that I do a few years in Shortland Street, and I returned with a vengeance to the work I loved