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- Miranda Harcourt: from Gloss newbie to acting coach...
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Miranda Harcourt got her screen break playing the bitchy Gemma on iconic 80s soap Gloss. Since then the versatile Harcourt has hardly taken a breath — directing and mentoring young actors, as well as acting in prisons, tele-movies Clare and Tangiwai - A Love Story, and her husband Stuart McKenzie's feature For Good, among many other roles. In this ScreenTalk interview, Harcourt talks about: The joys of playing Gemma on Gloss, as the character journeyed from being a "really nice girl from Ham...
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- gloss / acting / drama therapy / prisoners / interviews / for good / clare / verbatim / portraits / rnz / bad blood / close to home / radio / radio new zealand / miranda harcourt / mike newell / soap opera / parnell / central school of speech and drama / london / actors / actor / prisons / psychiatric institutions / deaf schools / schools / theatres / theatre / william brandt / violent crime / crime / shirley horrocks / act of murder / paris film festival / film festivals / michelle langstone / human psychology / the new zealand drama school
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