Bliss

Bliss
Airdate	August 28, 2011
Written by	Fiona Samuel
Directed by	Fiona Samuel
Network	NZ: TV ONE
Style	98-minute drama
Company	MF Films
Origin	New Zealand

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Bliss is a biopic drama of the life of one of New Zealand's most well-loved and renouned authors, Katherine Mansfield. It tells the story of her early beginnings as a writer in early 20th century New Zealand and the events that spanned several years before her untimely death at the age of 34, many miles away from her homeland, in France.

Starring: (in credits order) Claire van Beek (Nellie the housemaid), Sarah Graham (Ruby the housemaid), Kate Elliott (Katherine Mansfield), Chelsea McEwan Millar (Chaddie Beauchamp), Sarah Peirse (Annie Beauchamp), Natasha Davis (Vera Beauchamp), Lily Boreham (Jeanne Beauchamp), Edward Hall (Leslie Beauchamp), Paul Barrett (Mr Bullen the piano teacher), Antony Starr (Tom Mills), Chelsea Preston Crayford (Edie Bendall), Leigh Smith-Gibbons (Clara Geddis), Sara Allen (Esme Geddis), Edith Poor (Uma Geddis), Peter Elliott (Harold Beauchamp), Sophia Hawthorne (Miss Puttnam), Julia Croft (Ida Baker), Anton Tennet (Arnold Trowell), Tandi Wright (Lily Trowell), Holly Thomas (Dolly Trowell), Elliott McKee (Garnet Trowell), Sophie Roberts (Dora Jenkins), Toni Potter (Celia), Florence Noble (Natalie), Rima Te Wiata (Miss Watson), Gareth Williams (Dougal - player with cello), Cameron Rhodes (Mr Kay the banker), Ian Hughes (George Bowden), Adam Gardiner (Charles the manservant), Alistair Browning (Wedding Registrar), Edwin Wright (William - George's witness), Sophie Henderson (Fanny the chorus girl), Dwayne Cameron (Orchestra player), Thomas Easden (Orchestra player), Janice Gray (Train passenger), Julia Hyde (Pearl the hotel maid), Sarah Valentine (Frau Muller), John Leigh (Herr Gruber), Lucy Schmidt (Mother of Nine), Hera Dunleavy (Widow), Simon London (Floryan Sobieniowski), Rachael Blampied (Berthe), Raymond Hawthorne (Kindly Doctor), Josie Ryan (Fraulein Nitsch), Oliver Bennett (Charlie Walter), Ross Duncan (Severe Doctor), Serena Cotton (Scottish Nurse), Barnie Duncan (John Middleton Murry)

External Sites

Bliss at TVNZ
Bliss at the Internet Movie Database