Shortland Street

Show Summary

Shortland Street is a fast-paced serial drama set in an eponymous inner city Auckland hospital. A South Pacific Pictures production, the iconic show is based around the births, deaths and marriages of the staff, family and patients. Screening five days a week on TV2 it is New Zealand’s longest running drama. Characters and lines from the show have entered the culture, most famously, “You’re not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata!”.

Alum Actors

• Alison Bruce plays Danni Brown/Nurse Lindsay Maguire
• Alistair Browning plays Felix Bentley
• Angela Marie Dotchin plays Kirsty Knight
• Barry Duffield plays Dave Woods/Les Foster/Quinten/Constable Dave Groves/Golf Buddy/Bio-Security Officer Carter/D.I Taylor
• Bruce Burfield plays Zjelko Kostanic
• Bruce Hopkins plays Marcus Bowman
• Charmaine Guest plays Nurse Mallory Price
• Colin Moy plays Brett Valentine
• Craig Parker plays Guy Warner
• Daniel Meade plays Karl Smith
• David Mackie plays Haden Lowe
• Dean O'Gorman plays Nurse Harry Martin
• Elizabeth Hawthorne plays Dr. Julia Thornton
• Janine Burchett plays Susie Hunter
• Jason Hoyte plays John Grainger
• Jo-Anna Crichton plays Raewyn Hart
• Jodie Rimmer plays Danni/Samara Hindmarsh/Stacey
• Joel Tobeck plays Craig Develter
• John Dybvig plays Rick Burnbaum
• Josh Gilbertson plays Matt Bennett
• Katrina Browne plays Jenna Small
• Kevin Smith plays Jed
• Kieren Hutchison plays Jonathan McKenna
• Marek Sumich plays Derek Richmond
• Meighan Desmond plays Lulu Chatfield
• Michael Daly plays Police Prosecutor
• Michael Hurst plays Greg Vicelich
• Miriama Smith plays Nurse Awhina Broughton
• Morgan Reese Fairhead plays Bianca Davenport
• Paolo Rotondo plays Andrew Solomon
• Paul Norrell plays Malcolm Ward
• Paul Willis plays Sheridan Smith
• Robin Kora plays Arthur Kahu and Detective Nuku
• Ross Duncan plays Dan Thodey/Dennis Kennedy-Brown/William McAllister
• Scott Michaelson plays Curtis Thompson
• Sharon Tyrell plays Karen Donovan
• Sonia Gray plays Aleesha Cook
• Susan Brady plays Hilary Sturgess
• Stuart Devenie plays Art Teacher
• Taungaroa Emile plays Whetu Hudson
• Timothy Lee plays Noel Carter
• Andrea Bruce plays Journalist - (H:tLJ alum, as well as Lawless: Beyond Justice, and Lawless: Dead Evidence)
• Andrew Robertt plays Nurse Steve Mills - (HtLJ and X:WP alum, as well as Lawless: Dead Evidence, Power Rangers, Legend of the Seeker, The Legend of William Tell, Orange Roughies, Street Legal, Duggan, and The New Adventures of Black Beauty)
• Beth Allen plays Brooke Freeman - (X:WP alum, as well as The Legend of William Tell and Power Rangers)
• Brenda Kendall plays Ngaire Gleeson - (H:tLJ and X:WP alum, as well as Fracture, Lawless: Beyond Justice, Lawless: Dead Evidence, and Riding High)
• Brian Moore plays Russell Loomis - (alum of Riverworld and Legend of the Seeker)
• Calvin Tuteao plays Dr. Victor Kahu - (H:tLJ and X:WP alum, as well as Lawless, Cleopatra 2525, Duggan, and Legend of the Seeker)
• Danielle Cormack plays Alison Raynor - (H:tLJ and X:WP alum, as well as Legend of the Seeker, Maiden Voyage, Without a Paddle, Cleopatra 2525, Jack of All Trades, Channelling Baby, The Last Tattoo, and Gloss.
• Des Wallace plays Shades - (H:tLJ alum, as well as Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Legend of the Seeker, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Mercy Peak, and Lawless: Beyond Justice)
• Ken Blackburn plays Sir Bruce Warner - (HtLJ and X:WP alum, as well as The Legend of William Tell)
• Michelle Langstone plays Susan Morris - (X:WP alum, as well as Legend of the Seeker, Power Rangers, Diplomatic Immunity, This Is Not My Life, Being Eve, and The Almighty Johnsons)
• Patrick Kake plays Kim Tairoa - (HtLJ alum, as well as Cleopatra 2525, Legend of the Seeker, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Power Rangers Mystic Force, and Riverworld)
• Phillip Spencer Harris plays Davin Reed, Deputy Mayor Michael Chisholm, and Det. Ray Mason - (X:WP alum, as well as Legend of the Seeker, Lawless: Beyond Justice, Outrageous Fortune, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , and Cleopatra 2525)
• Rachel Nash plays Pamela Ashton - (also in The Almighty Johnsons, Legend of the Seeker, Outrageous Fortune, and Mercy Peak)
• Ray Henwood plays Dr. Laurence Godfrey - (HtLJ and X:WP alum, as well as The Legend of William Tell)
• Richard Knowles plays Shortland Street - (also in The Almighty Johnsons, This Is Not My Life, and Legend of the Seeker)
• Shelly Edwards plays Harriet Andrews and IVF Doctor - (X:WP alum, as well as Lawless, Lawless: Beyond Justice, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
• Tahei Simpson plays Dr. Cassie Moore - (also in The Almighty Johnsons and Lawless)

Links

• Shortland Street on IMDB
• Shortland Street on TVNZ
• Shortland Street on Wikipedia
• Shortland Street on TV.com
• Shortland Street on NZ On Screen

Watch Highlights From The First 15 Years

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Additional Pictures

Angela Marie Dotchin as Kirsty Knight.

Craig Parker as Guy Warner.

Miriama Smith as Nurse Awhina Broughton.