Victoria Abbott
Acting
Biography
Victoria Abbott, a highly experienced actress and graduate of Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School, has an impressive career in television, with notable credits including "Power of the Dog" and "Top of the Lake" under the direction of Jane Campion, as well as the telefeature adaptation of Archibald Baxter's WWI memoir, "Field Punishment No.1," and her lead role in "The Holy Roller" (2010). She has also excelled in theatre, with lead roles in productions such as "Othello" and "Much Ado About Nothing" at Auckland and Sydney's "Pop Up Globe Theatre." Most recently she was core cast in the US series, "Power Rangers Dino Fury."
Known For
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Power Rangers
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
Top of the Lake
Set behind the scenes of an ordinary Kiwi secondary school, following the hopelessly and hilariously inept people in charge of educating the next generation.
Educators
Meet Tama, Māia, Jojo, Buzz and their whānau Aunty Anika, Wolfy, Oma and Mōhio as they dance, sing and have fun around their whare. Produced by Rogue Productions for TVNZ
Toi Time
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
Field Punishment No.1
A struggling preacher is tricked into starting a church in a nightclub by its unscrupulous owner, who sees it as a way to repay his gambling debts to an underworld boss. Things go from bad to worse when the underworld boss sends his number one hit-man to clean up the situation
The Holy Roller
In rural New Zealand, a fifteen-year-old girl fights to keep her place among the pack of boys she has grown up with. As day turns to night, she falls into a power game with the pack's alpha - but it is the wrestle within herself that proves to be her hardest challenge.
Pack Rat
Baz Luhrmann meets Peter Jackson in this audacious 1950s-style comedy-horror musical extravaganza, featuring a spectacular score performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Set in Cold War-era rural New Zealand, HUHU ATTACK! is the story of two social misfits - mousy spinster, Ngaire, and traveling magician, Miles - who find love against a backdrop of small-town prejudice and 40ft-high mutant man-eating Huhu grubs!
Huhu Attack!
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of Christchurch’s business district. This is the tragic story of New Zealand’s worst fire disaster.
Ablaze
A lonely woman turns to a cutting-edge dating service, hoping technology might succeed where love has failed.