Gareth Reeves

Gareth Reeves
OccupationActor
Notable workThe Insiders Guide to Love
The Cult
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Gareth Reeves is a New Zealand actor who worked in Australia and New Zealand.[1] For his performance in The Insiders Guide to Love he won the 2006 Air New Zealand Screen Award for Performance by an Actor in the Television section.[2] He was nominated at the 2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a leading role in Film for his role in A Song of Good.[3]

Screen roles he has played includes the TV series The Cult,[4] The Insiders Guide to Love as Luc,[5] Underbelly as Kiwi Doug Wilson, Go Girls[4] and films Pete's Dragon,[1] Under the Mountain,[4] A Song of Good[6] and I'm Not Harry Jenson.[7]

From February 2019 to July 2023 he played Harry Potter in the Melbourne production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.[8] Other stage roles include Venus in Fur (2015, Darlinghurst Theatre Company),[9] and The Dream (2014, a Bell Shakespeare’s reworking of A Midsummer Night’s Dream)[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "On the Couch with Gareth Reeves", Australian Arts Review, 29 May 2015
  2. ↑ "Air New Zealand Screen Awards 2006 – finalists and winners". OnFilm. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  3. ↑ QANTAS FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS 2008, Ngā Taonga
  4. 1 2 3 Smith, Jacqueline (5 November 2009), "Gareth Reeves - breaking out of the bit parts", The New Zealand Herald
  5. ↑ McEvoy, Marc (14 July 2006), "The Insiders Guide to Love", The Age
  6. ↑ Edwards, Russell (5 February 2008), "A Song of Good", Variety
  7. ↑ Calder, Peter (29 May 2015), "I'm not Harry Jenson", The New Zealand Herald, archived from the original on 9 February 2015, retrieved 23 June 2026
  8. ↑ Flux, Elizabeth (22 July 2023), "He played Harry Potter on stage. Now he's out of work, and nearly out of money", The Age
  9. ↑ Delamoir, Jeannette (4 June 2015), "Review: Venus in Fur — Darlinghurst Theatre Company", Aussie Theatre
  10. ↑ Jackson, James (9 October 2014), "Bell Shakespeare: The Dream", Aussie Theatre