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Ginette McDonald

Actor, Producer, Director

Lynn of Tawa (Ginette McDonald) takes a stroll with Winston Peters through a Wellington inner city cemetery, for 1991 TV show Visual Symphonies.

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Ginette McDonald playing her most famous character: Lynn of Tawa.

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A shot from pioneering drama series Pukemanu: Phyllis Telford (Pat Evison) and Angus (Tama Poata) examine an injured Diana Thorpe (Ginette McDonald) in episode 'Pukemanu Welcomes You'

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Richard Driver (then Dick Driver) with Lynn of Tawa (Ginette McDonald) in 1989.

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Producer Ginette McDonald on the set of 1989 series The Champion. McDonald and director Peter Sharp had previously worked together on award-winner The Fire-Raiser (1986).

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Ginette McDonald and Susan Wilson in Tom Stoppard play Travesties; Downstage Theatre, Wellington 1975.

Ginette McDonald and John Clarke in a London flat, 1973.

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Ginette McDonald as Regan, in a 1983 Circa Theatre production of King Lear.

The programme for play Private Lives; Ginette is at the bottom. 

Lynn of Tawa (Ginette McDonald) says hello to the Queen, during the 1981 Royal Command Performance.

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What were teenage girls of the 60s interested in? Boys, pop-stars and fashions...the girls of Peppermint Twist were no exception. From left: Diane (Ruth Bijl), Lynette (Felicity Samuel) and Mandy (Louise Graham).

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Peter Sinclair hits Roseville to judge Peppermint Twist's Giant Limbo contest. Top row from left: Chris (Murray Keane), Dean (D'Arcy Waldengrave), Spiro (Stanley Findlay), Peter Sinclair, Harvey (Stephen Judd), unknown actors. Bottom row: Diane (Ruth Bijl), Mandy (Louise Graham) & Lynette (Felicity Samuel).

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Jed Brophy and Ginette McDonald in 1998 short film Group Therapy.

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