Geraldine Brophy

Geraldine Brophy is a New Zealand actress, playwright and theater director. Born in Birmingham in 1961, she moved to New Zealand with her family in 1972 and took her first professional role at the Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North in 1983. She spent ten years with the Court Theatre company in Christchurch and also appeared for Downstage and Circa, playing the title role in a New Zealand Actors' Company production of King Lear in 2002. Her first film was Fiona Samuel's Home Movie in 1997, which won her a New Zealand Film and Television Best Actress Award, and she spent four years as Moira Crombie in the soap opera Shortland Street. She began writing plays in 2003, among them The Viagra Monologues and The Merry Wives of Windsor Avenue, and has directed for the Court and Downstage theaters. In 2023 she received a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand.