Miranda Harcourt’s HOLLYWOOD AT HOME!

Miranda Harcourt is an acting coach who works with top actors and directors all over the world on films and TV shows such as Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and Lion. She and husband Stuart McKenzie are the parents of acting daughters Thomasin, 21, and Davida, 14, who also work internationally and son Peter, 22, who is a law student and journalist. Weekly readers will remember Miranda as Gemma in the 1980s TV show Gloss.

You work with many international actors and directors. Have you managed to do this during Covid?

I’ve had 18 months at home, but pretty soon I’ll start to travel overseas again, supporting directors on sets. But another way I work is individually with actors on Zoom, preparing their auditions or roles, so really the pandemic has made absolutely no difference to me whatsoever.

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