Alistair Browning

Alistair has been working as an actor and stage-director for 43 years, in New Zealand, Australia and England. He has won seven awards for acting and one for for directing. He trained at Theatre Corporate and the Mercury Theatre in Auckland, NZ and went on to play Hamlet and many other Shakespeare and classic roles, as well as comedies, modern dramas and musicals in theaters around New Zealand, and then in the countries above. He then began an ongoing career in film and television. He continues to work to this day, based in Auckland, NZ.Alistair Browning is a New Zealand actor who has won several awards for his work in film, television and theatre.

He won Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film at the 2001 New Zealand Film and Television Awards for his role in Rain.[1]

He played the role of Damrod, a soldier of Faramir’s Rangers, in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Browning has regularly appeared in live professional theatre in New Zealand. He started his career at The Mercury Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand in 1977 as an intern, immersing himself in all aspects of theatre, including stage management, lighting, sound and special effects operation, set construction, costuming as well as acting. In 1980 he joined the Court Theatre company, playing Hamlet among many other roles and continued to work there and throughout New Zealand until the present day in a wide variety of genres from modern comedy to Classical. In 1981, he joined the core cast of The Sullivans television series in Melbourne, Australia and has since worked often in Australia in theatre, film and television. He has also performed in England at The Yvonne Arnaud, Old Vic and Shakespeare’s Globe theatres.

He is represented internationally by Johnson Laird Management.