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Dame Miranda Catherine Millais Harcourt DNZM (born 1962) is a New Zealand actress and acting coach. [1] Harcourt's acting career began playing boy characters on Radio New Zealand in the early 1970s. She is best known for her role as Gemma in the 1980s TV drama series Gloss.
Miranda has coached Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, International Emmy and BAFTA-award nominated and winning performances. In 2017 Miranda co-directed NZ YA classic The Changeover with Stuart McKenzie. The film was released in the UK, the US and NZ.
At the forefront of verbatim theatre internationally, their plays include VERBATIM, PORTRAITS, FLOWERS FROM MY MOTHER’S GARDEN and BIOGRAPHY OF MY SKIN. Their acclaimed dark drama FOR GOOD, adapted from their verbatim work in prisons all over NZ, won Best Actress at the Festival Des Antipodes.
In 2019 and 2021 she was a Governor for the Filmmaker Lab and the Rising Stars at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). Miranda has coached Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, International Emmy and BAFTA-award nominated and winning performances. In 2017 Miranda co-directed NZ YA classic The Changeover with Stuart McKenzie.
Oct 31, 2018 · Miranda Harcourt - Miranda Harcourt's career has seen many notable excursions into screen work — from finding early fame on beloved soap Gloss to ambitious big screen drama For Good, which she acted in and helped produce. In 2017 she made fantasy The Changeover, with her husband Stuart McKenzie.
Miranda Harcourt is a celebrated acting coach for TV and Film. She helps actors inhabit an authentic emotional world for their character that answers a director's vision. She draws...
At 53, Miranda Harcourt is more in demand than ever, appearing in two television series and working as a sought-after international acting coach. She talks to Suzanne McFadden.
