The New Zealand television legend reflects on the legacy of Cheryl West, working with Jane Campion, and why she’s still haunted by banana skins.
Just like her Far North co-star (and fellow My Life in TV contributor) Temuera Morrison, Robyn Malcom is someone who has truly earned the right to the (extremely overused) word “icon”. She first made red cardigans cool as nurse Ellen Crozier on Shortland Street in the 1990s, where her character burnt down her house with a cigarette, thwarted murder attempts by her own sister and survived the dramatic sinking of a harbour cruise in the 1998 Christmas cliffhanger.
