Sarah Smuts-Kennedy

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Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
OccupationActress

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy is a New Zealand actress and artist.

Smuts-Kennedy played lead roles in Jack Be Nimble , [1] This Is Not a Love Story [2] and Overnight [3] and a supporting role in The Footstep Man . [4] She appeared as a lawyer in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street . [5]

On stage she featured in Folie A Deux at Auckland's Watershed Theatre in 1996, [5] [6] Dr Akar's Women at the Stables [7] [8] and Scenes From an Affair at Old Fitzroy in 2001. [9] and Blind City at the Darlinghurst Theatre in 2003. [10]

Smuts-Kennedy also worked as an artist. In 2012 she graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts. [11] She has worked with photography, [12] video art, clay, [13] paint, [11] pastels and immersive installations. [14] Her work crossed over into horticulture. [15]

References

  1. Bernard, Jami (10 June 1994), "'Jack' Has Flash But No Emotion", Daily News
  2. Koehler, Robert (28 July 2002), "This is Not a Love Story", Variety
  3. "Love story on local Montana", Evening Post, 18 September 1995
  4. Martin, Helen (2007). "Leon Narbey: Art, Politics, and the Personal". New Zealand Filmmakers. Wayne State University Press. p. 265. ISBN   9780814330173.
  5. 1 2 Paulette, Crowley (3 March 1996), "Selling centre stage", Sunday News (New Zealand)
  6. Herrick, Linda (17 March 1996), "Selling centre stage", Sunday Star Times
  7. Clifford, Lydia (2 November 2001), "Rollercoaster ride with storytelling obsession", The Daily Telegraph
  8. Dunne, Stephen (18 October 2001), "A brave character, but we aren't wild about Harry", The Sydney Morning Herald
  9. Dunne, Stephen (21 August 2001), "Double dose of love — but one's not an affair to remember", The Sydney Morning Herald
  10. Morrison, Peter (17 January 2003), "One hit out of two", The Australian Jewish News
  11. 1 2 "Glamorous, frenetic and fantastical", The Post, 9 September 2023
  12. Benzie, Tim (18 July 2004), "In the frame", The Sun Herald
  13. Bowers, Samantha (19 February 2011), "Give them a break", The Sydney Morning Herald
  14. Gilbert, Linda (19 June 2023), "'Inner-tuition' - Inside the Studio & Mind Of Sarah Smuts-Kennedy", The Big Idea
  15. "Cultivating Change", Organic NZ, 25 February 2025