Oliver Driver was born on 22 November 1974 and is a New Zealand actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter.
13 Facts About Oliver Driver
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Oliver Driver co-hosted TV3's early morning news show Sunrise, which was cancelled on 8 April 2010.
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Oliver Driver played Mike Galloway, a pot-smoking nurse on the long-running New Zealand drama Shortland Street as well as starring in a comedy called Serial Killers, which was based on the lives of six storyliners working on a Shortland Street-style hospital based soap.
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Oliver Driver returned to Shortland Street in the 2010s as a co-producer and director for numerous episodes.
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Oliver Driver finished a three-year contract in 2008 of voicing advertisements for The Warehouse, a nationwide retail store in New Zealand.
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Oliver Driver is known outside of New Zealand as the voice of Jenji on Power Rangers Mystic Force and as Master Swoop in Power Rangers Jungle Fury.
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In 2012 Oliver Driver joined the cast of The Almighty Johnsons in a recurring role as Eggther during the show's second season.
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Oliver Driver worked on a television show called Sunny Skies as Oscar, which premiered on TV3 on 8 February 2013.
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Oliver Driver used to host the Almost Monday radio talkback show for New Zealand's nationwide Newstalk ZB radio station on Sunday evenings.
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In 2006 Oliver Driver starred in the horror comedy film Black Sheep.
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Oliver Driver appeared in Jonathan King's Under the Mountain, a film adaptation of the Maurice Gee book of the same name as Mr Wilberforce, the main villain.
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Oliver Driver has appeared in A Death in The Family, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, Majik and Rose, Snakeskin and Toy Love.
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Oliver Driver starred in the play The Pillowman at the Maidment Theatre, Auckland; in a season of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for Silo Theatre; and in Brendan Cowell's Ruben Guthrie at Herald Theatre, The Edge, Auckland, New Zealand.