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Jennifer Ward-Lealand (Jennifer Cecily Ward-Lealand) was born on 8 November, 1962 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a New Zealand actor and director. Discover Jennifer Ward-Lealand's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

Popular As Jennifer Cecily Ward-Lealand
Occupation Actress
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November 1962
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1897

Filmed largely in an Auckland flat, so cramped the cameraman sometimes had to sit on the stove, this tale of working class relationship breakdown would win Ward-Lealand a GOFTA Best Actress Award in 1897.

The same year Ward-Lealand made her big screen debut as nightclub singer Costello – and sang three songs – in Wellington crime thriller Dangerous Orphans.

1962

Jennifer Cecily Ward-Lealand (born 8 November 1962) is a New Zealand theatre and film actor, director, teacher and intimacy coordinator.

She has worked for 40 years, appearing in over 120 theatre performances: Greek, Shakespeare, drama, comedy, devised, and musical theatre.

1978

Ward-Lealand's first ongoing television role was as Jan in Close to Home (1978–1980).

She sought opportunities to develop her theatre skills with roles at Downstage Youth Theatre.

After leaving school, Ward-Lealand spent a year touring New Zealand in a community theatre group, The Town and Country Players, performing school and community shows and appearing in Chekhov's one-act play 'The Bear.

When she was seventeen, and ushering at Downstage Theatre, she was inspired by a performance by the company of Theatre Corporate of Metamorphosis directed by Paul Minifie.

1982

After first attending a summer school in Hawkes Bay, run by Auckland's influential Theatre Corporate, Ward-Lealand then completed in 1982 a year-long diploma in acting with the company with Paul Minnifie, Judith Gibson, Elizabth Hawthorne, Elizabeth McRae, Linda Cartwright and Raymond Hawthorne as the main teachers /directors.

She credits her intense training at Theatre Corporate with instilling discipline, fortitude and ensemble experience.

Work followed between the venues of Theatre Corporate, Centrepoint Theatre and Mercury Theatre, with the latter offering opportunities to develop a classic cabaret repertoire showcasing Ward-Lealand performing songs by Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Stephen Sondheim and Kurt Weill.

Directly after leaving drama school, Ward-Lealand appeared in the short-lived TV drama Seekers, before her breakthrough television role in "Danny and Raewyn", an episode from the About Face series.

1983

They met at Theatre Corporate in 1983, then performed in 22 shows together, before their two sons were born in 1997 and 1999.

The sons follow 'family tradition' by working in film and music production.

1988

Since 1988 she has been married to actor Michael Hurst of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys fame.

1989

In 1989, Jennifer joined the theatre/music group The Front Lawn and played ukulele and sang backing vocals on the album, "Songs from the Front Lawn".

1990

She then went on to perform in the show, "The One that Got Away" throughout New Zealand followed by performances in London, Edinburgh ("Pick of the Fringe), New York, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. In 1990 she played Linda in the short film "Linda's Body" for The Front Lawn and returned to touring "The One that Got Away" to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

1993

Her screen credits include the 1993 movie Desperate Remedies as well as appearances in The Footstep Man, the soap Shortland Street and Australian comedy series Full Frontal.

Ward-Lealand was born in Wellington, New Zealand to Philippa "Pippa" Mary (née Ward) and Conrad Ainsley Lealand.

She has an older sister, Diana Mary Ward-Pickering and a half brother Simcha Lindt.

From the age of seven, after experiencing the buzz of joining the cast of Oedipus at Unity Theatre, Ward-Lealand knew that she wanted to be an actor.

At aged 8, she had her first small role in the film Gone up North for Awhile directed by Paul Maunder.

In 1993 she joined the core company of the Australian comedy TV show "Full Frontal" shooting in Melbourne spending the next two years working on 40 episodes.

2005

Since performing in Hedda Gabler, the final Theatre Corporate production, Ward-Lealand has contributed significant roles to the Silo Theatre, such as Stevie in The Goat or Who is Sylvie by Edward Albee performed in 2005 with her husband Michael Hurst; Martha in "That Face" by Polly Stenham However, her most extensive repertoire has been programmed by the Auckland Theatre Company (ATC), including playing Barbara in the 2010 production of August; Osage County; Ouisa Kitteridge in Six Degrees of Separation; The Witch in Into the Woods; the 2020 online role of Arkadina in ATC's Zoom production of ''Chekhov's The Seagull.

'' Ward-Lealand has also made frequent guest appearances in The Basement's Christmas comedies, whether playing Helen Clark or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

Ward-Lealand's roles in New Zealand plays include Pass it On, The Bach, Via Satellite, The Sex Fiend, Rita and Angus and ''My Name is Gary Cooper.

Through play readings and workshops, she has also supported the development of local scripts, such as Pankhurst in Red by Dean Parker, or Irene in Flour by Briar-Grace Smith (Centrepoint Theatre's 24-Hour Challenge Online). '' Outside of her performing, directing and intimacy work, Ward-Lealand leads a very busy life due to MC work, speaking engagements, teaching, voiceovers and narrations.

What inspires her is to 'work with great people on great projects'.

2007

In 2007, she toured her acclaimed Marlene Dietrich cabaret show, Falling in Love Again (also the name of her first solo CD) in New Zealand and Australia.

Ward-Lealand was a founding board member of Watershed Theatre and a co-founder of the Large Group and the drama school, The Actors’ Program. She is a Patron of Q Theatre, Te Manu Tīoriori Trust and serves as a trust board member of The New Zealand Actors Benevolent Fund. An advocate for improving actors' working conditions and pay, Ward-Lealand has been President of Equity New Zealand since 2007.

2008

Since 2008, Jennifer Ward-Lealand has been a keen student in te reo the language of New Zealand's indigenous Māori people.

2014

In 2014, she was touring Jacques Brel songs solo in several Arts Festivals: Auckland, Tauranga, Nelson, Christchurch and Taranaki.

2018

She later toured with the same show in 2018.

Her engagement in the cabaret diva genre became a hallmark of her style as a singer.

After years as a teacher of the craft of acting, Ward-Lealand began training as an intimacy coordinator in 2018, and has worked on over 60 shows in this role.

Her overall aim is to "make actors' lives better" by applying the best practice guidelines of Equity New Zealand.

Ward-Lealand is also a patron of Theatre New Zealand, New Zealand's amateur theatre society central body.