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T E L E V I S I O N

2011

Wanda on Auckland Daze
Episodes 1-6
Director: Kiel McNaughton

Interviewee on Artsville
episode: "Bill Sevesi's Dream"
Director: Ly Ying

Panelist on The Good Word
Episodes 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.14
3rd Party Productions

2010

Guest reviewer on Reel Late with Kate
TV3

Debater on The Good Word Debate
TVNZ 7 (watch online)

Panelist on The Good Word
Episodes 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12
3rd Party Productions

2009

Award show host, The Montana World of Wearable Art Awards
Prime

Louise Bouchet in The Jaquie Brown Diaries
episodes: "Brown's Bush" pt. 1 & 2
Director: Gerard Johnstone
TV3

Guest on The Good Word
episode: 1.11
3rd Party Productions

2005

Gail Abbott in Interrogation
episode:  "True Confessions"
Director: Murray Keane
South Pacific Pictures

2004

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TV3

2003

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TV3

2001

Doctor in Love Mussel
Director: Michael Hurst
Frame Up Films

1999

Zehra in Xena: Warrior Princess
episode: "The Play's The Thing"
Director: Chris Graves
Renaissance Pictures/Universal Television

1998

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TV3

Joanne in Duggan
episode: "A Shadow of Doubt" pt. 1 & 2
Director: Yvonne McKay
Gibson Group

Julie in Pale Blue
John Swimmer Productions

1997

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TV3

Boadicea in Xena: Warrior Princess
episode: "The Deliverer"
Director: Oley Sassone
Renaissance Pictures/Universal Television

Guest artist in Pete and Pio
one hour special

1996-97

Isobel Kearney in Shortland Street
60 episodes
South Pacific Pictures

Jane in Letter to Blanchy
episodes: "Love Makes the World Go Wrong",
"China Syndrome", "Garage Sale of the Century"
Isambard

1995

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TVNZ

Voluptua in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
episode: "All That Glitters"
Director: Garth Maxwell
Renaissance Pictures/Universal Television

1994

Guest Artist in Christmas in the Park
TVNZ

Body and Soul Profile
TVNZ

1993-1994

Core cast in Full Frontal
4 x series, 44 episodes
Artist Services (Australia)

1993

20/20 Profile
TV3

1992

Presenter for Open Home
12 episodes
TVNZ

1990

Raewyn in The Billy T James Show
episode: "No Brain, No Pain"
Director: Aileen O'Sullivan
Isambard

Betty Sue in For The Love of Mike
episode 1.6
Director: Tony Holden
Comedia Productions

1987

Presenter for Kaleidescope
episode: Lee Grant Special
TVNZ

1985

Nardia in Seekers
16 episodes
TVNZ

1978-80

Jan in Close to Home
TVNZ

1972

child in Gone Up North for a While
Director: Paul Maunder
New Zealand National Film Unit

 

  

 

2011: As Wanda on Auckland Daze

2010: Guest reviewer on Reel Late with Kate

 

2009: As Louise Bouchet in The Jaquie Brown Diaries, "Browns' Bush"
1998:  As Joanne in Duggan, "A Shadow of Doubt"

 

 1997:  As Boadicea in
Xena: Warrior Princess,
"The Deliverer"

 

1996 & 1997:   As Isobel Kearney in Shortland Street

 


1995:  As Voluptua in
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,
"All That Glitters"


1993 & 1994:  As a member of the core cast of Full Frontal (seen here as Leeza Gibbons)

"The new series got rave reviews when it started three weeks ago and producer Andrew Knight is full of praise for his Kiwi (actresses)." (Sunday News)



1992:  As presenter for Open Home

"Ward-Lealand struck a nice balance between serious interviewer and normal person. . . . This well-known actress has easily turned her talents to a presenting role."  (New Zealand Herald)

1985:  As Nardia in Seekers

" . . . up-and-coming Auckland actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand is particularly strong as Nardia." (Evening Post)
 
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