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Fiona Samuel MNZM is a New Zealand writer, actor and director who was raised Scotland from 1961 until the age of five. She moved to New Zealand and grew up in Christchurch before moving to Wellington to train as an actor at the New Zealand Drama School .
Fiona Samuel has found success as an actor, writer and director. Her first acting job was in long-running soap Close to Home, and she followed that with appe...
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Fiona is an actor, writer and director. She trained at the New Zealand Drama School, and has been working freelance since 1981.
Dec 20, 2019 · Director, Writer. Overview. Biography. Screenography. Awards. More Information. Fiona Samuel began as an actor, and filled the downtime with writing. She has gone on to write scripts, direct, co-host arts show The Big Art Trip, and act in everything from Close to Home to Footrot Flats.
Fiona Samuel graduated from the New Zealand Drama School in 1980 and started her working life as an actor. She began to write shortly afterwards, and her first radio play, Blonde Bombshell, won a Mobil Award for Best Drama in 1984. Fiona moved into writing for television with The Marching Girls, an original seven-part series screened in 1987 ...
May 28, 2024 · Fiona Samuel, MNZM, has created original drama since graduating from Drama School aged 20. As a screenwriter and director, playwright and actor she has worked in television, radio, film and theatre creating award-winning dramas in all these fields. Fiona Samuel was born in Scotland in 1961 to New Zealanders abroad.
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Nov 27, 2022 · One person who would know is one of our finest screenwriters Fiona Samuel. And not just on the screen - we've just played her radio trilogy Hat Trick in our Classic Drama slot - and Fiona's recently conducted workshops on the secrets of creating brilliant TV.
