Elisabeth Easther played Carla Crozier on New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street from May 1995 to July 1996, and has since had a varied career in television, radio, journalism and playwriting.
13 Facts About Elisabeth Easther
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Elisabeth Easther initially planned to study law at university, but ended up graduating from Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre and film.
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Elisabeth Easther subsequently attended drama school Toi Whakaari and graduated in 1992 with a Diploma in Performance.
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Elisabeth Easther played the villainous character Carla Crozier on New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street, from May 1995 to July 1996.
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In February 2021, Elisabeth Easther returned to Shortland Street to play Crozier on a short-term contract.
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Elisabeth Easther has continued to act on television and in commercials, including playing the supporting role of Fran on the show Outrageous Fortune in series 3 and 4, and appearing on sketch comedy Funny Girls in 2016.
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Elisabeth Easther has done voice-over work for the Power Rangers Jungle Fury television series and commercials for Whittaker's chocolate and Sky TV.
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Elisabeth Easther was the voice-over artist for the character The Maven in an update to the video game Path of Exile released in January 2021.
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In 2018, Elisabeth Easther was the host of a remake of Islands in the Gulf, New Zealand's first documentary series, that had been produced and hosted by her mother in 1964.
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Elisabeth Easther visited islands in the Hauraki Gulf that her mother had visited and re-interviewed surviving interviewees.
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Elisabeth Easther has written a number of plays, including Raw and Salt.
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Elisabeth Easther has written extensively as a journalist for the NZ Herald since 2012, as well as a book critic on radio and in print since 1993.
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Elisabeth Easther edited an anthology of fiction, non-fiction and poetry about New Zealand birds called Bird Words, published in 2017.