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Todd Rippon / Jeffray the Black Widower
Jeffray the Black Widower heads the One Door production company, and was until recently Louise’s husband. Todd has 27 years experience as a professional actor of stage, film, television and radio.
He has appeared in 10 feature films including most of the Peter Jackson blockbusters. In Return of the King he spent four and a half hours every morning for two weeks in the make-up chair to become a Harad Commander riding the huge elephants into the battle of Plenethor Fields. His career has taken him to several exotic filming locations. For Castaway starring Oliver Reed he spent three weeks in the Seychelle Islands in his first year of drama school, he has done two film and television shoots in the Fiji Islands and one recently in Rarotonga playing a New York gangster ghost in Paradise Café. He did a short stint on Shortland Street as Brendon Cardiff (an abusive husband) but has not been invited back to play another role as his entrance through a door with a chainsaw was a little too memorable. He had a core cast role in Dark Knight (The story of Ivanhoe) and appeared in McPhail and Gadsby as many characters including Wyatt Creech. He has appeared in nearly 100 professional plays starting way back in 1981 when he was hired fresh out of high school by The Auckland Youth Theatre to be a Actor/Tutor on a TIE scheme. Later in 1999 Shear Madness broke the New Zealand record for the longest running theatre show in one venue. He trained in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School and graduated in 1988 and worked as a freelance actor there until a six-month contract with Downstage Theatre brought him back from Australia in 1991. He currently lives in Wellywood a stone’s throw away from Stone Street Studios with his wife Pippa and their two teenage sons. |
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