Nicola Murphy

Actor Nicola Murphy made her big screen debut in 1995 in the offbeat fantasy Jack Brown Genius. She followed it by playing Rose in the acclaimed Magik and Rose, before co-starring opposite American actor Judge Reinhold in rural romance Wild Blue. 

Murphy, meanwhile, in the more thankless role, is everyone's idea of a stitched-up smalltown girl who blossoms into the story's big adventure. NZ Herald critic Peter Calder, on Murphy’s performance in Magik and Rose