Harry McNaughton

Harry McNaughton began his career on Shortland Street, before branching into other acting roles, writing and producing. McNaughton played the street's proudly asexual receptionist Gerald Tippett from 2007 to 2012, and later joined the show's a writing team. Since then, he has juggled acting (Funny Girls, Step Dave) with writing (Under the Vines, The Sounds) — sometimes doing both on the one show. In 2022 he produced, co-wrote and acted in euthanasia drama The Pact, which won him an NZTV Award with co-writer Natalie Medlock. He soon co-created another award-winning show: Rachel Griffiths-led prostitution tale Madam .  

There's a lot of misinformation around about acting as a career choice — you have to love it. I think the majority of actors (or the good ones, anyway) are definitely not doing it to get double-takes on the street. Harry McNaughton in an interview with The NZ Herald, 1 December 2011