Nicole Whippy

{{Short description|New Zealand actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}

{{BLP sources|date=August 2011}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Nicole Whippy

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| birth_name = Nicole Celeste Whippy

| birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|33|2011|10|9}}

| birth_place = {{flagicon|Fiji}} Suva, Fiji

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| occupation = Actress, Director, Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 2000–present

| spouse = Tom Holden

| children = 2

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Nicole Whippy (born 1977 or 1978){{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/entertainment/5751109/Screen-siren-is-not-me |title=Screen siren is not me |first=Katherine |last=Forbes |work=Sunday News |publisher=Fairfax New Zealand |date=9 October 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130010422/http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/entertainment/5751109/Screen-siren-is-not-me |url-status=live |archivedate=30 November 2014}} is a New Zealand actress who has been in a number of television series and is best known for her role as Kasey Mason in the hit comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune. She is also known for her current role as Cece King in New Zealand's longest-running drama television series Shortland Street. Whippy made her directing debut on the feature film Vai, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019. Since then she has directed two series of well-loved New Zealand children's series Fejioa Club.

Career

She has appeared in various shows including Jackson's Wharf, The Strip, Being Eve, Mercy Peak and Orange Roughies.

In 2011, she starred in the series Nothing Trivial as hard-nosed Michelle Hardcastle.

Voiced character "Navali" in online video game "Path of Exile"

In 2019, she starred as Cece King, a social worker who dealt with her mother-in-law's dementia and eventual death, her husband's sexual assault allegations, and her daughter's pyromania. She also revealed that her mother is a maternal mental health nurse .{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/114039431/shortland-street-nicole-whippys-tough-predicament|title=Shortland Street: Nicole Whippy's tough predicament|website=Stuff|date=5 July 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-07}}

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2000

|Vertical Limit

|Spanish Climber

|

2010

|{{sortname|The|Box|nolink=1}}

|Woman at Bar

|Short

2019

|{{sortname|The|Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith}}

|Tanita Paletu'a

|

2024

|Tinā

|Rona

|{{cite web |title=Tinā |url=https://www.nzfilm.co.nz/films/tin |publisher=New Zealand Film Commission |access-date=25 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250314233921/https://www.nzfilm.co.nz/films/tin |archive-date=14 March 2025 |url-status=live}}

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1999

|Xena: Warrior Princess

|Chilapa

|Episode: "Endgame"

1999–2000

|Jackson's Wharf

|Larissa Enari

|Main role

2001

|{{sortname|The|Lost World|The Lost World (2001 film)}}

|Maree

|TV film

2002

|Being Eve

|Elektra

|Episodes: "Being Individual", "Being Grown Up", "Being Tested"

2002–03

|{{sortname|The|Strip|The Strip (New Zealand TV series)}}

|Chocolate

|Recurring role

2003

|Mercy Peak

|Cara-Lee

|Episodes: "Reality Bites", "Great Escape", "Do It for Love"

2005–2010

|Outrageous Fortune

|Kasey Mason

|Recurring role (series 1–2), regular (series 3–6)

2006–07

|Orange Roughies

|Donna Wiki

|Recurring role

2011–2014

|Nothing Trivial

|Michelle Hardcastle

|Main role

2017

|Auckward Love

|Thelma

|TV series

2018

|Westside

|Kasey's Mum

|Episode: "4.2"

2019–present

|Shortland Street

|Cece King

|Regular role

Activism

In the campaign for the New Zealand general election, 2011, Whippy attended a policy launch by the Green Party.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10742684 |title=Greens unveil poverty plan for 100,000 kids |date=3 August 2011 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=21 July 2014}}

References

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