Geraldine is most remembered as the effervescent Moira Crombie from NZ’s best loved drama Shortland Street which she played for five years from 1997 to 2001. She won the 1998 New Zealand Film and Television Best Actress award for her lead role in Home Movie and was a finalist for Best Actress in the 2000 awards for Shortland Street.  

Other television appearances include the recent Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby, Serial Killers, Spin Doctors, Maddigan’s Quest and Insiders Guide to Love.  She has played Detective Farnom in the film In My Father’s Den, and was also cast in Peter Jackson’s King Kong. 

Geraldine is heavily involved in the New Zealand theatre scene with directing, producing and acting.  In her subsequent 22 years in the industry she has played more than 150 roles on stage. She was a core member of Elric Hooper’s Court Theatre Company for over a decade, winning the Press Best Actress award several times.  Her memorable work there includes leads in a range of classics, among them the title roles in Medea, and St. Joan, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Gertrude in Hamlet, Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing, Gwendoline in The Importance of Being Earnest, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mae in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, and Sonia in Uncle Vanya .

More recently Geraldine has appeared principally in contemporary plays at the Auckland Theatre Company and Wellington’s Downstage theatre.  She also played the title role in the New Zealand Actor’s company Festival production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Leah.  She won the 1996 Chapman Tripp Award for Best Supporting Actress in the Downstage production of Tzigane.

In the Cinema she has been seen in the hit film In My Father’s Den and King Kong and has completed filming The Waterhorse for release in cinemas 2007.

Geraldine’s previous productions as director include Alan Bennett’s Single Spies at the Court Theatre and the 2005 revival of Renee’s Wednesday To Come, at Downstage theatre. She has directed her own plays The Viagra Monologues and most recently, the premiere of her latest play, The Paradise Package at the Fortune Theatre Dunedin in 2006.

Her career as a dramatist began with the highly praised The Viagra Monologues at the Herald Theatre in Auckland in 2003. This piece on the theme of male sexuality and its expression inside and outside of relationships, features fifteen dramatic monologues divided among three male performers who play from three to eighty three.

Mary’s Gospel premiered at the Herald theatre in 2004. It focuses on the relationship of mentally disturbed Mary and her cousin /caregiver Lizzie after the death of Mary’s son Christie. The play, set in a Hutt Valley state house, is a painful and poignant look at community care and the Irish immigrant community in Wellington.

Geraldine created the role of Lizzie and also that of Karen in her best-known work Confessions of a Chocoholic, which debuted in Petone in 2004 and has since gone on to tour nationally. It tells of a teenage mother being forced to give up her baby for adoption and her search in later life for this child.

Real Estate was premiered in Petone 2005. A two hander, it involves octogenarians Norma and Lottie whose relationship is strained by Norma’s reluctance to leave her family home and Lottie’s revelation of her involvement with Rocky, Norma’s late husband.

Geraldine topped off 2008 by Winning Best Actress in a Feature Film for ’Second Hand Wedding’ at the Qantas Film & TV Awards. In ’Second Hand Wedding’ Geraldine played strong-willed and avid garage sale hunter Jill Rose.

In 2009 Geraldine won the hearts of the nation while competing on Dancing with the Stars, making it through to the semi-finals with her lively dance partner Stefano Olivieri.

Geraldine lives in Petone, Wellington New Zealand with her husband Ross Joblin and two daughters, Zoe and Beatrice.  She is available for guest appearances and MCing events.