18 Facts About Miranda Harcourt

Dame Miranda Catherine Millais McKenzie; nee Harcourt was born on 1962 and is a New Zealand actress and acting coach.

Miranda Harcourt is best known for her role as Gemma in the 1980s TV drama series Gloss.

Miranda Harcourt spent three years acting on the show, and her character was so despicable that people spat at and insulted Miranda Harcourt in public.

Miranda Harcourt received a nomination in the 1989 Film and TV Awards for best actress for the role.

Miranda Harcourt graduated from Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, in 1984.

Miranda Harcourt was part of a PEP scheme under Darcy Nicholas at the Willis Street Wellington Arts Centre directed by Colin McColl in a play.

Miranda Harcourt was a pioneer of verbatim theatre in New Zealand, in creating Verbatim, in collaboration with William Brandt and Portraits in collaboration with Stuart McKenzie.

Miranda Harcourt recollected one inmate, a year after the show, asking her where the other actresses were who had starred, having remembered the distinct characters that Miranda Harcourt portrayed solo so distinctly that he remembered them as separate, individual women.

The NZ Times said Miranda Harcourt's performance was "frightening in its stamina and emotional range".

Miranda Harcourt has appeared in short films directed by each, including Pardington's The Dig and McKenzie's darkly comic Ends Meat'.

Miranda Harcourt is currently an acting technique tutor for The Actors Program, Auckland, New Zealand.

Miranda Harcourt was the Head of Acting at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, for seven years, and is widely acknowledged for her contributions to the school.

In 1993, Miranda Harcourt received the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal, and in the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to theatre and the community.

Miranda Harcourt has twice been awarded Best Actress at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards.

Miranda Harcourt has won New Zealand Film and TV Awards for Best Short Film and was a finalist as Best Actress and as Best Supporting Actress.

Miranda Harcourt was nominated for Best Performance by a Supporting Actress, a General TV Award, for Tangiwai in 2011.

In 2018, Miranda Harcourt received the Art and Culture Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.

Miranda Harcourt's younger brother Gordon Harcourt was a presenter on Fair Go.