Danielle Cormack

Acting

Danielle Cormack

Born

1970-12-26 (55)

Place of birth

Auckland, New Zealand

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Danielle Cormack (born 26 December 1970) is a stage  and screen actress from New Zealand.  She was one of the original core cast of the long-running soap opera Shortland Street, though she is most famous for her role as the Amazon Ephiny in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, and more recently as Cynthia Ross in The Cult, and Shota in Legend of the Seeker. Her works include the 2009 film, Separation City, and the Australian series Rake. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Cormack , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 9 titles

Without a Paddle poster
5.7

Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.

Without a Paddle

2004

Perfect Creature poster
5.3

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.

Perfect Creature

2007

Separation City poster
5.2

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

Separation City

2009

River Queen poster
5.7

In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Māori tribes and the British colonial army.

River Queen

2005

The Price of Milk poster
5.6

Lucinda lives a fairytale life with dairy farmer Rob, and his 117 cows. But after a freak car accident she decides to test Rob's love for her by trying to make him angry. He passes her tests until a quilt goes missing from their bed and the price of getting it back is high.

The Price of Milk

2001

Maiden Voyage poster
4.0

A former firefighter and Special Forces officer takes on a team of murderous terrorists when the oceanliner he's working on is hijacked shortly after leaving port. Hired to evaluate security on a luxury cruise ship, blaze battler and former military man Kyle Considine (Casper Van Dien) brings his young son Zach along for a week of fun at sea. The fun stops, however, when the ship sets sail and a highly organized team of terrorists threaten the lives of everyone onboard.

Maiden Voyage

2004

A Song of Good poster
5.5

After committing a shocking crime, Gary Cradle secretly decides to change his life and become a good person. However deciding is one thing, changing a life is another.

A Song of Good

2008

Stringer poster
NR

In this science fiction B movie a photo-journalist, Stringer, returns to New Zealand only to find himself with a mystery chest scare and a plague like infection taking grip of the local community.

Stringer

2007

Together poster
1.0

Over Christmas lunch an estranged daughter struggles with her Dad’s Alzhiemer’s and the reaction her return creates in the family.

Together

2004

1990s · 9 titles

Siam Sunset poster
6.1

A British design executive, who seemingly has everything going for him has his life totally changed when a refrigerator falls from an aircraft and lands on his wife...

Siam Sunset

1999

The Last Tattoo poster
5.6

In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.

The Last Tattoo

1994

No artwork available
NR

1995 TV movie directed by Jessica Hobbs.

Overnight

1995

Amazon High poster
4.0

A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.

Amazon High

1997

Via Satellite poster
5.2

As a family gather to watch one of their own swimming in the Olympics, minutes of fame become a hilarious and painful 24 hours when they uncover the secrets of a lifetime.

Via Satellite

1998

No artwork available
7.0

For Kane Harris and Vera Smith, what starts as an easy task of murder becomes a tangled web of deception and betrayal. Their target, Kane's wife, is no easy victim.

A Game With No Rules

1994

Topless Women Talk About Their Lives poster
5.5

Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.

Topless Women Talk About Their Lives

1997

Channelling Baby poster
6.5

Destined to be lovers, Bunnie and Geoff are wildly happy together in the 1970's, until something terrible happens to drive them apart. In the 1990's they are forced back together again when a strange young couple probe the mystery of what really happened between them. What is the truth?

Channelling Baby

1999

Snap poster
NR

A young couple stumble into a disused photographer's studio and find themselves snapped up by the past.

Snap

1994

Series credits

Xena: Warrior Princess poster
7.5

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

Xena: Warrior Princess

1995

Xena: Warrior Princess poster
7.5

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

Xena: Warrior Princess

1995

Shortland Street poster
5.3

The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.

Shortland Street

1992

Underbelly poster
6.6

Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.

Underbelly

2008

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys poster
6.9

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

1995

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys poster
6.9

The legendary son of Zeus journeys across the earth fighting monsters and helping people.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

1995

Wentworth poster
8.0

Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.

Wentworth

2013

Legend of the Seeker poster
7.4

The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.

Legend of the Seeker

2008

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries poster
7.7

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012

My Life Is Murder poster
7.2

Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.

My Life Is Murder

2019

Rake poster
7.5

Cleaver Greene is not about politics or morality or even justice. Cleaver Greene is about the law. And it is his passion for the law that drives him to use his formidable intelligence to defend people whom society and the justice system might otherwise convict without a fair trial. He uses his encyclopaedic knowledge of human nature and the Byzantine intricacies of our legal codes to guarantee that his clients get what is theirs by the law; the right to a diligent defence.

Rake

2010

Jack Irish poster
6.5

Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.

Jack Irish

2016

City Homicide poster
5.9

City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.

City Homicide

2007

Secret City poster
6.6

Beneath the placid facade of Canberra, amidst rising tension between China and America, senior political journalist Harriet Dunkley uncovers a secret city of interlocked conspiracies, putting innocent lives in danger including her own.

Secret City

2016

East West 101 poster
6.7

Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.

East West 101

2007

Jack of All Trades poster
7.5

American spy Jack Stiles teams with British agent Emilia Rothschild to thwart Napoleon's advances in the East Indies.

Jack of All Trades

2000

The Last Anniversary poster
7.2

A mystery that touches on family matters, motherhood and those women whose legacy defines the generations that blossom after them.

The Last Anniversary

2025

Return to Paradise poster
6.7

DI Mackenzie Clarke is forced to leave London under a cloud of suspicion and return to the last place she ever wanted to be, her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia where her tenacity and work ethic helps her solve murder mysteries.

Return to Paradise

2024

Erotic Stories poster
3.3

Erotic Stories is a bold and transgressive anthology series exploring sex and intimacy amongst diverse characters not traditionally seen as sexual leads.

Erotic Stories

2023

Madam poster
5.0

Mack Leigh, faced with a philandering husband and a mountain of debt starts up an ethical brothel in small town New Zealand to provide for her family and put a new spin on sex and work.

Madam

2024

Year Of poster
7.0

The final two years of high school are simultaneously traumatic and exhilarating for both the kids at Jubilee High, and their parents and teachers.

Year Of

2023

Maddigan's Quest poster
7.0

Maddigan's Quest was a fantasy-based television series set in a post-apocalyptic future. It was based on an original concept by Margaret Mahy and was developed for television by Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang. The show originally screened on CBBC in the UK, and was also aired on TV3 in New Zealand, Family Room HD from Voom Networks HD and Nine Network in early 2006.

Maddigan's Quest

2006

The Secrets She Keeps poster
5.4

In an affluent Sydney suburb, two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant and due at the same time. Meghan is a glamorous influencer on the rise, with an ambitious television sports reporter husband Jack, while Agatha works in the supermarket as a shelf stacker. Although they live near each other, the two women’s lives could not be more different…Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.

The Secrets She Keeps

2020

Rude Awakenings poster
5.0

Rude Awakenings centres on two families who live next door to each other in a fashionable street in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland. The Rush family has just moved to their newly renovated house from a lifestyle block in Kumeu. They immediately hit a wrong chord with their new neighbours, the Short family.

Rude Awakenings

2007

Patricia Moore poster
NR

Patricia Moore hunts to feed her cannibal family when they are hungry. But when she meets Toby, who ignites her desire to live a normal teenage life, the family's number one rule challenges Patricia.

Patricia Moore

2018

The Cult poster
5.0

The Cult is a New Zealand serial drama television series in which a group of people try to rescue their loved ones from a mysterious cult called Two Gardens. The Cult held the 8:30-9:30 spot on TV2 in New Zealand. The series debuted in New Zealand on September 24, 2009 and finished with a 2 hour season finale on December 10. It was airing on Polish and Portuguese television in 2011, and commenced screening on Australian television from December 2012.

The Cult

2009

Deep Water poster
6.4

Detectives Tori Lustigman and Nick Manning are assigned a brutal murder case in Bondi, where they begin to uncover mounting evidence to suggest the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, "suicides" and disappearances of gay men throughout the 80s and 90s. Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Tori's fascination with the case soon turns to fixation. When more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature, Tori and Nick will need to put their relationships, their careers and their lives on the line to finally reveal the truth.

Deep Water

2016

Life on the Outside poster
NR

Would you let a convicted criminal stay in your home? Presented by Danielle Cormack, this ground-breaking new series follows a unique initiative to tackle recidivism - a person's relapse into criminal behaviour. Follow four Australian households that are prepared to offer their spare room to a formerly incarcerated person for 100 days.

Life on the Outside

2022

Behind the camera