Debbie Newby-Ward

Debbie Newby-Ward got her break playing a rebellious teenager on 1990s horse drama Riding High. After studying acting at Unitec, and a run of theatre and television roles, she joined hit show Nothing Trivial as Emma, an optimistic but unlucky in love teacher. Newby-Ward was also winning attention as the domineering wife in an ad campaign for Tower Insurance. After taking a break from the screen to start a family, she joined the cast of Shortland Street in 2015 as wife, mother and embezzler Margaret Hannah. She'd already appeared on the show twice before — including one of her earliest screen roles, as teenage girlfriend to Nick Harrison.

I do tend to see things coming way before Emma ever would, so I guess that makes me more critical than her (or shall we call it less naïve?). Being more critical than Emma isn't hard though — she really doesn't have a bad bone in her body! Debbie Newby-Ward on her Nothing Trivial character, in an interview for the TVNZ website