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Creamerie
''Creamerie'' is a black comedy web series from New Zealand that launched in 2021 on TVNZ OnDemand. It explores a world in which nearly all men have died from a virus, and three friends, played by Perlina Lau, J.J. Fong, and Ally Xue, run a dairy farm under the watchful eye of Wellness, the local governing body. The series was created by Lau, Fong, Xue, and director Roseanne Liang. Plot Alex, Jaime and Pip are three friends living on a New Zealand dairy farm eight years after all men on Earth have been killed by a mysterious virus. An organization called Wellness now runs their community and controls repopulation via lottery, using sperm saved from old sperm banks. The friends' lives are thrown into disarray when they encounter a man whom they assume to be the last surviving man in the world. They eventually stumble upon a laboratory where some of the very few surviving men are being held hostage, tied to their chairs, gagged and naked, with pumping devices attached to their g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roseanne Liang
Roseanne Liang is a New Zealand film director. Her first feature film, '' My Wedding and Other Secrets'', was the first theatrically released feature film made by a Chinese New Zealander and became 2011's highest grossing local feature film. She also co-created, directed, and co-wrote the 2021 TV series ''Creamerie''. Early life Liang was born in New Zealand to Hong Kong emigrants. Her parents were doctors, one was a pediatrician and the other a surgeon. She has two sisters. Liang attended St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1995. She went on to study computer science at the University of Auckland. She graduated with a Masters in Creative and Performing Arts in 2003. Career Liang made her directorial debut with the autobiographical documentary film ''Banana in a Nutshell'' (2005), which was about her own cross-cultural romance with a Pākehā. The film won Best Documentary at DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival. Liang won Best Director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Crossman
Kimberley Frances Crossman (born May 1990) is a New Zealand actress and presenter who is best known for her role as Sophie McKay on the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. She is the co-founder of Joyable. In August 2021, it was announced that she would feature in the 2021 Season of Celebrity Treasure Island 2021. Early life Crossman began dancing at age three, which was encouraged by her mother Jill Arkley who is a ballet teacher. In 2006, she was Deputy Head Girl at Diocesan School for Girls (Auckland), Diocesan School for Girls in Epsom, New Zealand, Epsom, Auckland. Cheerleading/dance In 2006, she danced at the Royal New Zealand Ballet's season of ''Giselle''. She was captain of the Total Cheerleading Senior Elite team in 2005 when they toured the United States and came sixth in the World cheerleading championships. In 2008, Crossman was part of 'Dziah 2 Dream', a ten-week program run by Dziah. In March 2008, she travelled around the United States of America wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angella Dravid
Angella Dravid (born C. 1985/1986) is a New Zealand stand-up comedian, writer and actress. Biography Dravid was born c. 1985/1986 in New Zealand to a Samoan Christian mother and Indian Hindu father. She stated that being from a mixed race, there were many arguments at the family dinner table, like whether to eat meat. She emigrated with her family when they settled into rural South Australia. Dravid played the violin in high school and met a classical musician in a music chat room. She stated that she had been in the studio where The Spice Girls recorded. She moved to the UK to start a relationship with the man, who was older than her. They married the following year. Their relationship became abusive; aged 19, Dravid was arrested and convicted of assaulting her husband with a picture frame. There was nobody Dravid knew who could bail her out in the UK; she spent two months in prison and three years in a bail hostel, whilst pursuing work at the Royal Ascot racecourse before be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel House (actress)
Rachel Jessica Te Ao Maarama House (born 20 October 1971) is a New Zealand actress, comedian, director and acting coach. Early life House was born in 1971 in Auckland and was raised in Kamo, Whangarei, by her adoptive Scottish parents John and Sheila House. She is of Māori (Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāi Tahu) and European descent. Career Acting House attended the New Zealand national drama school, Toi Whakaari, graduating in 1992. From here she went into stage work with Pacific Underground Theatre and Auckland Theatre Company. In 1995, she won the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award Most Promising Female Newcomer of the Year Award for her performance in the one-woman show ''Nga Pou Wahine'' by Briar Grace-Smith. This was followed by other awards in 2000 (Most Outstanding Performance) for Witi Ihimaera's critically acclaimed ''Woman Far Walking'' (in which she played the key role of Tiriti, a 160-year-old woman) and 2003 (Best Supporting Actress) in Henrik Ibsen's ''An Enemy of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tandi Wright
Tandi Wright (born 4 May 1966) is a New Zealand actress. She first gained recognition for portraying Nurse Caroline Buxton on the long running New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. She is best known for her roles as Fenn Partington on ''Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby'' and Catherine Duvall on '' Nothing Trivial''. She played a recurring role in ''800 Words'' portraying the character Laura Turner. Life Wright was born in Zambia to New Zealander parents Vernon Wright and Dinah Priestley. She grew up in Wellington and attended Wellington High School and Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School with a Diploma in Acting in 1994. Her father Vernon Wright, is a former journalist for "The Listener" who now lives in Zambia, and her mother Dinah is a writer and actress in Wellington. Wright has two sisters, Nicky (DOC policy advisor) and Justine (film editor), and two step sisters, Stephanie (information architect) and Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Ayres
Tony Ayres (born 16 July 1961) is an Australian showrunner, screenwriter, director in television and feature film. He is most notable for his films '' Walking on Water'' and ''The Home Song Stories'', as well his work in television, including working as the showrunner on '' The Slap'' and teen adventure series ''Nowhere Boys''. Early life On 16 July 1961, Ayres was born in Portuguese Macau (now in China). In 1964, Ayres' mother married an Australian sailor and migrated her family to Perth, Western Australia. In 1972, when Ayres was 11 years old, his mother died by suicide. She was a nightclub singer."Going beyond the pale" '''', 4 April 2003. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Ryan (actor)
Jay Ryan (born 29 August 1981) is a New Zealand actor. He is best known for his roles as Jack Scully in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'', Kevin in the New Zealand comedy-drama programme ''Go Girls'', Mark Mitcham in the internationally produced New Zealand television programme ''Top of the Lake'', Vincent Keller in the American television series '' Beauty & the Beast'' and Detective Ben Wesley in the Canadian television series '' Mary Kills People''. Ryan made his feature film breakthrough playing adult Ben Hanscom in ''It Chapter Two'', a sequel to the 2017 horror film '' It'', based on the 1986 novel of the same name. Career Under the name Jay Bunyan, he appeared as "Glen" in the "Scallywag Pirates" (2000) and had a minor role in '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. He is known for his portrayal of Jack Scully in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' from late 2002 until January 2005. From 2007 to 2009, Ryan played Seaman William "Billy" Webb aka Spider in the popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Auckland, New Zealand
West Auckland ( mi, Te Uru o Tāmaki Makaurau) is one of the major geographical areas of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. Much of the area is dominated by the Waitākere Ranges, the eastern slopes of the Miocene era Waitākere volcano which was upraised from the ocean floor, and one of the largest regional parks in New Zealand. The metropolitan area of West Auckland developed on the lands between the Waitākere Ranges to the west and the upper reaches of the Waitematā Harbour to the east, in areas such as Massey, Henderson, New Lynn and Glen Eden. The area is within the rohe of Te Kawerau ā Maki, whose traditional names for the area were Hikurangi, Waitākere, and Te Wao Nui a Tiriwa, the latter of which refers to the forest of the greater Waitākere Ranges area. Most settlements and pā were centred around the west coast beaches and the Waitākere River valley. Two of the major waka portages are found in the area: the Te Tōanga Waka (the Whau River portage), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In New Zealand
The COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case of the disease in New Zealand was reported on 28 February 2020. , the country has had a total of 2,062,384 cases (2,027,981 confirmed and 34,403 probable). 2,288 people have died as a result of the virus, with cases recorded in all twenty district health board (DHB) areas. The pandemic first peaked in early April 2020, with 89 new cases recorded per day and 929 active cases. Cases peaked again in October 2021 with 134 new cases reported on 22 October. A total of 7,274,347 COVID tests have been carried out . In response to the first outbreak in late February 2020, the New Zealand Government closed the country's borders and imposed lockdown restrictions. A four-tier alert level system was introduced on 21 March 2020 to manage the outbreak within New Zealand. Since then, after a two-month nationwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Region
Auckland () is one of the sixteen regions of New Zealand, which takes its name from the eponymous urban area. The region encompasses the Auckland Metropolitan Area, smaller towns, rural areas, and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. Containing percent of the nation's residents, it has by far the largest population and economy of any region of New Zealand, but the second-smallest land area. On 1 November 2010, the Auckland region became a unitary authority administered by the Auckland Council, replacing the previous regional council and seven local councils. In the process, an area in its southeastern corner was transferred to the neighbouring Waikato region. Geography On the mainland, the region extends from the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour in the north across the southern stretches of the Northland Peninsula, through the Waitākere Ranges and the isthmus of Auckland and across the low-lying land surrounding the Manukau Harbour, ending within a few kilometres of the mouth o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Wiseman
Sara Wiseman is a New Zealand actress, best known for her roles in the television series ''Mercy Peak'' as Dr. Nicky Somerville, '’ A Place to Call Home'' as Carolyn Bligh and ''The Cult'' as Annabelle Willis. Beginning her career with low-profile TV roles in ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' (1996 and 1999), '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' (1995) and ''Jackson's Wharf'' (2000). Wiseman made her first high-profile television appearance in the drama series ''Street Legal'' as Louise Jarvis in 2000, before in 2001 getting the role of Dr. Nicky Sommerville in the New Zealand TV series ''Mercy Peak''. For her role in the show, Wiseman garnered several nominations at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards under the category "Best Actress" during 2002 and 2003 respectively, alongside these accolades in 2005 Wiseman was nominated for the "Television - Best Performance By an Actress" award at the New Zealand Screen Award. Wiseman starred in ''Mercy Peak'' until 2002, when she left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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