Tandi Wright

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Tandi Wright
Born (1970-05-04) 4 May 1970 (age 53) [1]
Zambia
NationalityNew Zealand
OccupationActress
Years active1995–present

Tandi Wright (born 4 May 1970) is a New Zealand actress. She first gained recognition for portraying Nurse Caroline Buxton on the long running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street .

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She is best known for her roles as Fenn Partington on Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby and Catherine Duvall on Nothing Trivial .

She played a recurring role in 800 Words portraying the character Laura Turner.

Life

Wright was born in Zambia to New Zealander parents Vernon Wright and Dinah Priestley. She grew up in Wellington and attended Wellington High School and Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School with a Diploma in Acting in 1994. [2] Her father Vernon Wright, is a former journalist for "The Listener" who now lives in Zambia, and her mother Dinah is a writer and actress in Wellington. Wright has two sisters, Nicky (DOC policy advisor) and Justine (film editor), and two step sisters, Stephanie (information architect) and Victoria (teacher). Her husband Michael Beran is also an actor and they live in Auckland with their daughter, Olive.

Career

From 1995 to 2000, she appeared as Nurse Caroline Buxton in Shortland Street . Other roles include Power Rangers: S.P.D. , Crash Palace , Out of the Blue , Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby , The Lost Children , Black Sheep and Legend of the Seeker .

In 2010, she played the role of Callie Ross, the wife of the main character, in This Is Not My Life . Her next major role followed in 2011–2014, as Dr Catherine Duvall on the TVNZ drama Nothing Trivial . She starred 2014 in the drama thriller series The Returned as Claire Winship. [3]

Wright is vice president of the performers trade union Equity New Zealand. [4]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 The Enid Blyton Adventure Series IngridEpisode: "Ship of Adventure"
1995–2000 Shortland Street Caroline Buxton Main role
2000 Street Legal Detective Senior Sergeant Angela WatsonMain role
2000 Xena: Warrior Princess Sarah / SonataEpisode: "Who's Gurkhan?"
2001 Crash Palace Penny WattsMain role
2001–2002 Being Eve Alannah LushMain role
2003 Willy Nilly JoyMain role
2004Serial KillersSallyMain role
2005 Power Rangers S.P.D. Isinia CrugerMain role
2005–2008 Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby Fenn PartingtonMain role
2006 The Lost Children Charlotte MelvilleMain role
2006 Maddigan's Quest Timon's MotherEpisode: "Hillfolk"
2009–2010 Legend of the Seeker Mord'Sith / Alina3 episodes
2010 Outrageous Fortune MandyEpisode: "Let The Door Be Lock'd"
2010 This Is Not My Life Callie RossMain role
2011–2014 Nothing Trivial Catherine DuvallMain role
2015 The Returned Claire WinshipMain role
2015–2018 800 Words Laura TurnerRecurring role
2021 Creamerie LaneMain role

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984Irisunknown
1992 Absent Without Leave Tom's Fiancée
2002This Is Not a Love StoryStudio Art Dept
2003 Sylvia 2nd Woman at Ted Hughes' Lecture
2004 Raising Waylon Tina Stanfil
2004 Not Only But Always Julie Andrews
2006 Black Sheep Doctor Rush
2006 Out of the Blue Julie-Anne Bryson
2009 Piece of My Heart Chloe Morton
2012Kiwi FlyerKaren
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer Queen
2020 Love and Monsters Joel's Mother
2022 Pearl Ruth

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References

  1. ↑ Tandi Wright – Go moviez
  2. ↑ "Graduate". www.toiwhakaari.ac.nz. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  3. ↑ The Returned: Claire Winship
  4. ↑ "Equity New Zealand BoardTe Poari - Equity New Zealand" . Retrieved 3 November 2022.
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