Malcolm Alan Murray (born 24 July 1964) is a New Zealand stage and
television actor, best known for his role as Dr Alan Dubrovsky in the
television soap opera Shortland Street between 1999 and 2001. In 2005
he won the Actor of the Year award at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards
in Wellington for his portrayal of Dimitri Tsafendas in the Antony
Sher play I.D.Born in Oamaru, Malcolm grew up on his family's North
Otago farm, where he worked as a farmer after leaving secondary
school. Subsequently he worked as a Ministry of Agriculture farm
consultant before studying journalism at Aoraki Polytechnic, from
where he graduated in 1991. He then worked as a rural reporter for The
Press newspaper in Christchurch until the end of 1993, before studying
drama at Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 1995. He
played Bottom in the graduating class's production of A Midsummer
Night's Dream.His first production after graduating was the critically
acclaimed Knot A Problemâ€"a solo show that he wrote while at drama
school loosely based on his own lifeâ€"at BATS Theatre in Wellington
as part of the 1996 New Zealand Fringe Festival. Later that year he
played a Scottish doctor in The Vampyre Dances at Circa Theatre in
Wellington. He then appeared as Brian Fraser in Market Forces, Roger
Hall's sequel to Glide Time and Gliding On, at Centrepoint in
Palmerston North at the end of 1996.In 1997, Murray returned to
Centrepoint, playing a variety of characters in Travels with My Aunt,
adapted by Giles Havergal from the novel of the same name by Graham
Greene. He then followed that up with the role of a Russian tourist,
Konstantin, in the premiere of David Geary's comedy The Farm, at the
same theatre, before appearing in Hamlet, also at Centrepoint.
television actor, best known for his role as Dr Alan Dubrovsky in the
television soap opera Shortland Street between 1999 and 2001. In 2005
he won the Actor of the Year award at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards
in Wellington for his portrayal of Dimitri Tsafendas in the Antony
Sher play I.D.Born in Oamaru, Malcolm grew up on his family's North
Otago farm, where he worked as a farmer after leaving secondary
school. Subsequently he worked as a Ministry of Agriculture farm
consultant before studying journalism at Aoraki Polytechnic, from
where he graduated in 1991. He then worked as a rural reporter for The
Press newspaper in Christchurch until the end of 1993, before studying
drama at Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, graduating in 1995. He
played Bottom in the graduating class's production of A Midsummer
Night's Dream.His first production after graduating was the critically
acclaimed Knot A Problemâ€"a solo show that he wrote while at drama
school loosely based on his own lifeâ€"at BATS Theatre in Wellington
as part of the 1996 New Zealand Fringe Festival. Later that year he
played a Scottish doctor in The Vampyre Dances at Circa Theatre in
Wellington. He then appeared as Brian Fraser in Market Forces, Roger
Hall's sequel to Glide Time and Gliding On, at Centrepoint in
Palmerston North at the end of 1996.In 1997, Murray returned to
Centrepoint, playing a variety of characters in Travels with My Aunt,
adapted by Giles Havergal from the novel of the same name by Graham
Greene. He then followed that up with the role of a Russian tourist,
Konstantin, in the premiere of David Geary's comedy The Farm, at the
same theatre, before appearing in Hamlet, also at Centrepoint.
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