Robyn Malcolm

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Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Robyn Jane Malcolm Template:Post-nominals (born 1965) is a New Zealand actress, who first gained recognition for her role as nurse Ellen Crozier on the soap opera Shortland Street. She is best known for playing Cheryl West, matriarch to a sometimes criminal working-class family, in the television series Outrageous Fortune. She has also worked in Australia, including roles in the TV series Rake and Upper Middle Bogan. She plays the lead role in the six-part 2023 NZ drama After the Party.

Early life and education

Robyn Jane Malcolm[1] was born in 1965[2][3] in Ashburton, New Zealand.[4]

She attended Ashburton College,[4] and graduated from Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) with a Diploma in Acting in 1987.[5][6]

Career

Malcolm's first long-running television role was nurse Ellen Crozier in soap opera Shortland Street. She appeared on the show for over five years.[7]

She played the lead role in television feature, Clare, based on the cervical cancer experiment at Auckland's National Women's Hospital which resulted in the Cartwright Inquiry.[7][8]

In 1999, Malcolm was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Actors' Company along with Tim Balme, Katie Wolfe, and Simon Bennett. The company produced and toured a number of successful stage productions throughout New Zealand.[9]

In 2005, Malcolm took on the role of Cheryl West, matriarch of the West family, in Outrageous Fortune. Mixing comedy and drama, the show became one of the highest-rated and most honoured in New Zealand history.[10]

Malcolm co-starred in 2010 feature film The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, playing mother to a family obsessed with go-karting and motorsports.[11] She has also had small roles in movies Absent Without Leave directed by John Laing,[12] The Last Tattoo directed by John Reid,[13] Gaylene Preston's Perfect Strangers,[14] and Christine Jeffs' Sylvia.[15] She had a minor role as Morwen in the second film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.[16]

She played Kirsty Corella in the Australian television series Rake, and Julie Wheeler in Upper Middle Bogan.[17]

She plays Mrs Keene on the 2023 drama series Black Bird.[18]

Malcolm plays the lead role in the six-part drama After the Party, which aired on TVNZ from 29 October 2023.[19] The Guardian reviewer Luke Buckmaster called it "one of the greatest performances in any TV show in years".[20]

On 31 January 2025, Malcolm was named in the cast for Netflix series The Survivors.[21]

Recognition, awards, and honours

Malcolm was nominated for Best Actress at the 1998 TV Guide Television Awards for her work in Shortland Street. She was nominated again for her role in Clare.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In 2003, Malcolm won an International Actors Fellowship at the Globe Theatre in London.[22]

For her role in Outrageous Fortune, Malcolm won several television awards, including the Qantas TV Awards for Best Actress in 2005 and 2008, TV Guide Best Actress in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and Air NZ Screen Awards Best Actress in 2007.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Malcolm won the Woman's Day Readers' Choice Award for Favourite New Zealand Female Personality in 2005, and New Zealand's sexiest woman at the 2007 TV Guide Best on the Box awards.[23]

In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Malcolm was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to television and theatre.[24][1]

In March 2024 she was honoured with a Best Actress accolade at the Series Mania film festival in Lille, France. She received this prestigious award in the International Panorama section for her outstanding performance in After the Party, a series she co-created with writer Dianne Taylor. This recognition marked a significant milestone as the first time a New Zealand entry had been considered for an award at the festival.[25]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Absent Without Leave Betty
1994 The Last Tattoo Working girl
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Morwen
2003 Perfect Strangers Aileen
2003 Sylvia 1st woman at Ted Hughes' lecture
2005 Boogeyman Dr. Matheson
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Foreman's wife uncredited
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Gail Snell
2011 Burning Man Kathryn Dent
2013 Drift Kat Kelly
2015 Dream Baby Marianne Short film
2016 Edith Barmaid Short film
2017 Goodness Grows Here Trish Short film
2017 Hostiles Minnie McGowan
2018 Twenty One Points Mum Short film
2018 Charmer Woman Short film
2020 This Town Pam
2024 The Moon Is Upside Down Hilary [26]
2025 Pike River Sonya Rockhouse [27]
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Television

Year Title Role Notes
1989 Shark in the Park Janice Guest role (1 episode)
1990–91 Shark in the Park Janet Finn Guest role (2 episodes)
1992 Married Maddie
1993 Joyful & Triumphant Raewyn Television film
1994–99 Shortland Street Ellen Crozier Main role (600 episodes)
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ma'am Guest role (1 episode)
2000 Clare Clare Matheson Television film
2000 Op' Stars Narrator Television documentary
2001 Atlantis High Violet Profusion Guest role (1 episode)
2003 Mercy Peak Liz Guest role (2 episodes)
2003 Intrepid Journeys Herself 1 episode
2004 Serial Killers Pauline Lead role (7 episodes)
2005–10 Outrageous Fortune Cheryl West Lead role
2009 bro'Town Herself 1 episode
2009 Big Night In Herself Television special
2009 The Jaquie Brown Diaries Herself Guest (1 episode)
2010–14 Rake Kirsty Corella Recurring role (11 episodes)
2013 Top of the Lake Anita Main role (series 1; 7 episodes)
2013–14 Agent Anna Anna Kingston Lead role; also executive producer
2013–16 Upper Middle Bogan Julie Wheeler Main role
2014 Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs Presenter Television documentary
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ruth Phelps Episode: "To Die or Not to Die"
2015 The Principal Sonya Guest role (1 episode)
2016–18 Wanted Donna Walsh Recurring role (10 episodes)
2016 The Code Marina Baxter Main role (series 2: 6 episodes)
2017 Wake in Fright Ursula Hynes miniseries
2018–21 Harrow Maxine Pavich Main role
2018 Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You Irene Newton-John miniseries
2018–19 The Outpost Elinor Main role (season 1–2: 23 episodes)
2021 My Life is Murder Tamara Innes Episode : "Call of the Wild"
2022 Black Bird Sammy Keen Recurring role
2023 Far North Heather Main role (season 1)
After the Party Penny Wilding Main role
2024 Heartbreak High Cait White Guest role (Season 2, Episode 5)
2025 The Survivors Verity Elliott TV series
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Theatre

Year Title Role Theatre
1988 Script error: No such module "Sort". Lucy Brown Downstage Theatre
1988 Script error: No such module "Sort". Various Downstage Theatre
1988 Les Liaisons Dangereuses Cecile de Valonges Downstage Theatre
1988 Judy Various Downstage Theatre
1988 Jones & Jones Ida Baker Downstage Theatre
1988 Gulls Puppeteer Downstage Theatre
1989 Twelfth Night Viola BATS Theatre
1989 The House of Bernarda Alba Martirio Downstage Theatre
1989 Othello Bianca Downstage Theatre
1989 Aunt Daisy Various Downstage Theatre
1990 Sweet Nothings Various NZ Tour
1990 Serious Money Mary Lou Baines / Various Downstage Theatre
1990 Macbeth Ross / Hecate Downstage Theatre
1990 Hamlet Ophelia BATS Theatre
1990 The End of the Golden Weather Various Downstage Theatre
1990 Conquest of the South Pole La Braukman BATS Theatre
1991 Weed Raewyn Circa Theatre
1991 Via Satellite Chrissy Circa Theatre
1991 Script error: No such module "Sort". Cecily Cardew Downstage Theatre
1991 Songs for Uncle Scrim Various Circa Theatre
1991 A Pack of Girls Raewyn Downstage Theatre
1993 Two Weeks with the Queen Various Circa Theatre
1993 Lettice and Lovage Miss Farmer Circa Theatre
1995 Othello Emilia Watershed Theatre
1999 Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Downstage Theatre
2000 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie the Cat Downstage Theatre
2000 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania NZ Actors Company
2001 A Way of Life Jenny NZ Actors Company
2001 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania NZ Actors Company
2002 Middle-Age Spread Judy Auckland Theatre Company
2002 Queen Leah Kent / Caius NZ Actors Company
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Cariolla Auckland Theatre Company
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Susan Silo Theatre
2010 Happy Days Winnie Silo Theatre
2014 The Good Person of Szechwan Shen Teh Auckland Theatre Company

Personal life

Malcolm was formerly married to Allan Clark and has two sons.[28] She is in a relationship with Scottish actor Peter Mullan, whom she met while filming Top of the Lake in 2013.[29] Her sister is married to Roger Sutton, the former CEO of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority.[30]

Activism

Malcolm voiced Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand advertisements for the New Zealand general election, 2008.[31]

Malcolm has helped spearhead an actors' union campaign to negotiate standard contracts for actors in The Hobbit films. The producers refused, saying that collective bargaining would be considered price-fixing and therefore illegal under New Zealand law. The situation escalated into international calls for an actors' boycott of the films, but the boycott was called off. Several days later, the producers said they were considering moving the films to another country as they could not be guaranteed stability in New Zealand.[32]

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