Profile
Ethnicity
European
Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Height
172 cm
Age Range
31–41
Career Highlights
Romy is a stage and screen actress who trained at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 2009. She made her on screen debut as a guest on long-running Kiwi soap Shortland Street, and went on to feature as Courtney in all 3 seasons of comedy-drama series Nothing Trivial. More recently, Romy has made appearances in drama series The Brokenwood Mysteries, The Gulf, Head High, The Panthers, and Creamerie S2. She played Maggie Potter in Warner Bros Heaven and Hell: The Centrepoint Story and made her Netflix debut as Perla in Sweet Tooth S2.
She has played the lead in a number of short films including We Talk About Loss, Rats and Bottle Money. With extensive work in theatre, Romy has appeared as the lead in stage productions Closer, Have Car Will Travel, Heat and in the 2018 Pop Up Globe Southampton Company performing in Auckland and Sydney.
Awards.
| 2018 | Sydney Broadway World Awards Best Actress Nominee - Comedy of Errors | ||
| 2017 | NZ Speech Board 'Best Communicator' Award | ||
| 2013 | PlayMarket's Best Play | ||
Short Film.
| 2024 | Bottle Money | Mum (Lead) | Dir. Rebekah Tyler |
| 2022 | Bottle Money | Dir. Rebekah Tyler | |
| 2017 | Shed | Carol (Lead) | Dir. UNITEC Grad film |
| 2015 | Rats | Mum (Lead) | Auckland University of Technology Dir. Elwyn Brown |
| 2015 | Video Heaven | Jade | New Zealand Film Academy Dir. Jonathan Zsofi Guy |
| 2011 | Are You Still Here, Still? | Producer | Dir. Jordan Dodson |
| 2011 | We Talk About Loss | Anna | Dir. Oliver Page |
| 2009 | The High Risk Team | Midwife | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Shopping For One | Jaz | Dir. Lee-Jane Bennion |
| 2006 | The Best Night Ever - 48 Hour Film Festival | Lead (Lead) | UNITEC |
| 2005 | Go - 48 Hour Film Festival | Lead (Lead) | UNITEC |
Tele Film.
| 2020 | Centre Point | Margaret (Supporting) | Dir. Natalie Malcon and Thomas Robins |
Short Film.
| 2019 | The Waiting Room | Louise | Dir. Ghazaleh Golbakhsh |
Television.
| 2023 | Sweet Tooth (Season Two) | Perla (Guest) | Netflix Dir. Jim Mickle |
| 2022 | Creamerie Season 2 | Guard (Guest) | Dir. Roseanne Liang |
| 2022 | Rurangi S2 | Jean (Guest ) | Dir. Max Curry |
| 2021 | Head High Season 2 | Cara (Guest) | South Pacific Pictures Ltd Dir. Tim Worrall |
| 2020 | The Gulf | Sandra (Guest) | The Gulf Productions Dir. Various |
| 2020 | The Panthers | Geraldine (Recurring ) | TVNZ Dir. by Miki Magasiva, Vea Mafileo & Tom Hern |
| 2019 | The Brokenwood Mysteries | Corina Doyle (Guest) | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Katie Wolfe |
| 2011 | Nothing Trivial | Courtney | South Pacific Pictures Dir. Murray Keane |
| 2010 | Shortland Street | Gemma Jansen | South Pacific Pictures |
| 2006 | Tu Wera | Subject for Documentary | Adrenilan Group Ltd Dir. Pip Te Hira, Simon Flemming |
Theatre.
| 2019 | Heat | Stella (Lead) | Basement Theater Dir. William Moffett |
| 2019 | Little Yellow Digger | Bob (Lead) | Dir. Tim Bray |
| 2018 | Comedy of Errors | Adriana | Pop Up Globe Sydney Dir. Dr Miles Gregory |
| 2018 | Macbeth | First Witch, Donalbain and Soldier | Pop Up Globe Sydney Dir. Tom Malaburn |
| 2016 | Yours Truly | Harvey | Te Rehia Theatre |
| 2015 | Eat the Young Flesh - A New Musical | Melanie | Auckland Fringe Festival Dir. Patrick Kelly |
| 2015 | Have Car, Will Travel | Diane (Lead) | Te Pou Dir. Noa Campbell |
| 2014 | Aotearoa Speaks | Performer | Nova Riche |
| 2014 | Incubator Project | "The Perfect Original" | Red Leap Theatre Dir. Robin Kerr |
| 2014 | Love and Other Noise | Performer | International Headliner - Bristol's Boomtown Festival Dir. Matthew Grice |
| 2014 | Lucky C*ntry | Performer | Red Leap Theatre Dir. Laurel Devenie |
| 2013 | Lucky C*ntry | Performer | Short and Sweet Festival Dir. Romy Hooper |
| 2010 | Closer | Alice | Basement Theatre Dir. Oliver Page |
| 2010 | Tape | Amy | Redmond Barry Theatre Company |
| 2009 | Bedlam | Luna / Nurse | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2009 | The Caucasion Chalk Circle | Cook / Aniko / Peasant Woman | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Far Away | Chain Gang Member | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Macbeth | Macbeth | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Mountain Language | Sergeant (Lead) | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Pakiwaitara | Boots (Lead) | Museum of Wellington Dir. Jade Eriksen |
| 2008 | Party Time | Head Waitress | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | The Illusion | Elisa / Lyse / Clarina | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2008 | Toi Cabaret - Anything Goes | Singer | Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School |
| 2007 | The Corner of 4am and Cuba | Lead (Lead) | The Wheelbarrow Group |
| 2006 | One Friday in Eternity | Mary Magdalene | QuarterPassed Independent Production |
| 2005 | Laundry Girls | Beattie (Lead) | Aspiring Young Actors (AYA) |
Voice.
| 2023 | Blindingly Obvious | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2023 | Her Country: Women of Country Music | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2023 | Second Chances | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2023 | The Girl Who Saw Lions | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2023 | The Ratline: The Exhalated Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Aroha | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Daughters of Erebus | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Gang Girl | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Hello Stranger | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Hui: a study of Māori ceremonial gatherings | Audibook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Jacinda Ardern: a new kind of leader | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Nothing to See | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | Pull No Punches: memoir of a political survivor | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2022 | The Telling Time | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | Mataatua Whare: Te Whare I Hoki Mai | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | Mission Girl: the writings of Atapo | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | Pūrākau: Māori myths retold by Māori writers | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | Ripiro Beach | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | The Lost Tohunga | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2021 | The Pegasus series | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2020 | Ghosts of Parihaka | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2020 | Goneville | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2020 | March, Women, March: How women won the vote | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2020 | Stuff I Forgot to Tell My Daughter | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2020 | The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2019 | Anything That Burns You: A Potrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2019 | How to Bee | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2019 | Mataatua Wharenui: Te Whare i Hoki Mai Ra | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2019 | Te Whiti o Rongomai & the Resistance of Parihaka | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2018 | Alexa | ||
| 2018 | Paymark Payment Platform - Corporate, website | ||
| 2018 | Refinery NZ - Corporate | ||
| 2018 | The Moontide Quartet: Scarlet Tides | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2018 | The Moontide Quartet: The Unholy War | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2018 | The Petticoat Men | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2017 | The Nam Legacy | Audiobook/Narrator | |
| 2012 | Path of Exile | 'Helena' - Video Game | Grinding Gear Games |
Web Series.
| 2020 | Good Grief | Amba (Guest) | Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Ltd Dir. Kiel McNaughton |
| 2016 | Friday Night Bites - 'Set Up' | Amy | Flat3 Productions |
Training.
| Acting for Screen Masterclass - Miranda Harcourt - 2016 | |||
| Acting Masterclass - Raymond Hawthorne - 2016 | |||
| Working: Scene and Character Masterclass - Nathan Osgood - 2014, The Actor's Centre , London | |||
| Acting for Screen - 2009, Cal State Fullerton University, California | |||
| Musical Theatre Masterclass and Audition Technique Cal State Fullerton University with Eve Himmelheber, Mitch Hanlon, David Nevell - 2009 | |||
| Bachelor of Performing Arts - 2007, Toi Whakaari: NZ National Drama School | |||
| Stanislavski Sense Memory Method Acting - Kieren Le-Clare Green - 2006 | |||
| Classical Voice Training - Mezzo Soprano with Helen Jenkins - 2004 | |||
| Contemporary Singing - Jazz and Pop with Andrew Perkins - 2004 | |||
| Acting - Jan Saussey, Ben Crowder, Lynne Cardy, Kate Palmer - , Aspiring Young Actors Drama School (AYA) |