Jennifer Ward-Lealand

Jennifer Ward-Lealand

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jennifer Cecily Ward-Lealand CNZM (born 8 November 1962) is a New Zealand actor and director whose screen credits includes the in 1993 movie Desperate Remedies as well as appearances in The Footstep Man, the soap Shortland Street and Australian comedy series Full Frontal. Ward-Lealand was born in Wellington, New Zealand to Philippa "Pippa" Mary (née Ward) and Conrad Ainsley Lealand. She has an older sister, Diana Mary Ward-Pickering and a half brother Simcha Lindt. She is married to actor Michael Hurst of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys fame. They have two sons, born in 1997, and 1999. Her first ongoing television role was as Jan in Close to Home (1978–1980). After leaving school she spent a year touring New Zealand in a community theatre group, performing clown shows and Chekhov. In 1982 Ward-Lealand completed a year-long diploma in acting from Auckland's then influential Theatre Corporate. In between the theatre work that followed, Ward-Lealand appeared in short-lived TV drama Seekers, before her breakthrough television role in "Danny and Raewyn", an episode from the About Face series. Filmed largely in an Auckland flat so cramped the cameraman sometimes had to sit on the stove, this tale of working class relationship breakdown would win Ward-Lealand a GOFTA Best Actress Award. The same year Ward-Lealand made her big screen debut as nightclub singer Costello – and sang three songs – in Wellington crime thriller Dangerous Orphans. From 1989 to 1990 she appeared with Harry Sinclair and Don McGlashan in theatre/musical group The Front Lawn, winning a number of awards and accolades, and acting in Front Lawn film Linda's Body. In 1993 she appeared in the first series of TV skit comedy show, Full Frontal. As an actress, singer and director of theatre, Ward-Lealand has a number of credits and accolades, and acted in New Zealand plays The Bach, Via Satellite, and The Sex Fiend. In 2007, she toured her acclaimed Marlene Dietrich cabaret show, Falling in Love Again (also the name of her first solo CD) in New Zealand and Australia. She later toured with the same show in 2018. Jennifer Ward-Lealand is fluent in Te Reo Māori, the native language of New Zealand. Ward-Lealand, who herself is not Māori, started learning the language after not being able to respond to a traditional mihi or welcome speech. Ward-Lealand has also been an advocate for improving actors' working conditions and pay.

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Disrupt
Disrupt
Director
When a burglary goes wrong, a meth addict must choose between his family or his next fix.
Dead
Dead
Janine
Dane ‘Marbles’ Marbeck can see ghosts, thanks to a homemade drug: his late father’s neurological medication mixed with marijuana. Officer Jayson Tagg, a wannabe super-cop on the trail of a serial killer, ends up murdered. So when Marbles’ mum plans to sell the family farm, and the only way of buying the house off her is taking the money offered by Tagg in exchange for his help, Marbles accepts. The unlikely duo of stoner medium and ghost cop struggle to reconcile their differences while they navigate their way through ghouls, perverts, a mysterious hooded figure, and an unexpected shot at love. It becomes clear the only way Marbles and Tagg will solve the case with their souls intact is to confront their deepest regrets and overcome their prejudices.
Chekhov's The Seagull
Chekhov's The Seagull
Arkadina
Chekhov's famous characters are reimagined with a Kiwi twist and congregate over Zoom. In a direct commentary of our world in lockdown, the characters are still searching for meaning in their lives while battling love, jealousy, dissatisfaction, dreams, hopes and plans - not to mention malfunctioning video calls! This drama all plays out in self-isolation and over virtual interactions with each other.
Vermilion
Vermilion
Darcy
Darcy, a composer, sees colors when she plays musical notes. When she notices her usually subtle colors changing, she realizes a profound change is upon her. Over a summer month, Darcy creates a time of music and reflection that help her make a final choice.
Fracture
Fracture
Ulla Peet
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
Love Mussel
Love Mussel
Doctor
In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck") has the properties of Viagra.
I'll Make You Happy
I'll Make You Happy
Mel
Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of Auckland, New Zealand. Just like her fellow streetwalkers, Siggy constantly dreams of leaving "the life" behind. When she learns one day that her pimp is planning a big drug score, Siggy decides to seize the day -- and her future -- by grabbing the loot.
어글리
어글리
Evelyn Cartwright
음산함이 가득한 클라우스 정신병원. 폭우가 퍼붓는 어느 날 밤, 미모의 범죄 심리학자 카렌이 찾아온다. 범죄 심리학 분야의 실력가인 카렌은 한 연쇄살인범의 요청을 받고 그를 면담하기 위해 클라우스 병동을 방문한 것이다. 상담의 주인공은 사이먼. 면도칼로 잔인하게 목을 베는 엽기적인 연쇄살인범으로 체포되어, 정신병원에서 5년째 감금생활을 하고 있다. 사이먼을 가혹하게 다루는 건달 같은 간호사와 담당의사인 말로의 비협조적인 태도에 대한 반감을 느낀 카렌은 사이먼과의 인간적인 대화를 시도한다. 위험을 무릅쓰고 수갑도 풀어줘 가며 사이먼의 호감을 사려고 노력하는 카렌, 드디어 살인자의 입이 열리기 시작한다. 조울증 환자를 엄마로 둔 소년 사이먼은 글도 못 깨치고 내성적인 성격 때문에 학교 악동들의 놀림감이 된다. 어느 날 놈들에게 쫓기다 넘어진 그는 아스팔트 바닥에 심하게 얼굴을 긁혀 왼쪽 얼굴을 온통 차지하는 큰 상처를 얻는다. 그 사건으로 그는 동정심 많은 착한 소녀 줄리와 친구가 되지만, 상처가 깨끗이 나은 이후에도 그는 자기가 흉측한 Ugly 괴물이라는 열등감에 시달린다. 사이먼의 엄마는 그의 상태를 악화시킨다. 이혼한 아버지로부터 온 편지를, '난 흉측한 내 아들을 증오 한다'고 읽어준다. 하지만 우연히 거실에서 함께 놀던 줄리가 그 내용을 올바르게 읽어주는 것을 엄마에게 들키게 되고, 사이먼을 향한 증오와 학대는 점점 심해진다. 부자 아버지는 사랑하는 아들을 데려가고 싶어 했지만, 양육비를 타내기 위해 엄마는 사이먼을 강제로 붙잡아두고 있었던 것이다. 엄마에 대한 증오와 심한 열등감에 시달리던 사이먼은 엄마를 살해하고, 그때부터 주체할 수 없는 살인욕구에 시달리며 살인광이 된다. 엄마를 살해하면서 시작된 사이먼의 살인행각은 점점 강도를 더해가고 거의 닥치는 대로 사람을 잡아 면도칼로 목을 따는 끔찍한 살인광이 되어 결국에는 정신병동에 감금되어 있는 것이다.
A Game With No Rules
A Game With No Rules
Lauren
For Kane Harris and Vera Smith, what starts as an easy task of murder becomes a tangled web of deception and betrayal. Their target, Kane's wife, is no easy victim.
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Jane
After Jane leaves Bill, they each meet unusual strangers as they travel on their own.
Desperate Remedies
Desperate Remedies
Dorothea Brook
In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?
The Footstep Man
The Footstep Man
Mireille
Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
Dangerous Orphans
Dangerous Orphans
Teresa Costello
Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shooting O'Malley's father. The crooks are doing very nicely importing heroin and laundering money. The boys begin by killing one of the crooks, stealing his indentification and cleaning out the guy's Swiss bank account. But their revenge does not stop here... And the American end of the operation is getting very curious.