Education
Malcolm attended Ashburton College, and graduated from Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) in 1987.
Malcolm attended Ashburton College, and graduated from Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) in 1987.
Malcolm"s first long-running television role was nurse Ellen Crozier in soap opera Shortland Street. She appeared on the show for five years and was nominated for Best Actress at the 1998 television Guide Awards. She was nominated again for her lead role in television feature, Clare, based on the cervical cancer experiment at Auckland"s National Women"s Hospital which resulted in the Cartwright Inquiry.
The company produced and toured a number of successful stage productions throughout New Zealand.
In 2005, Malcolm took on the role of Cheryl West, matriarch of the West family, in Outrageous Fortune. Malcolm co-starred in 2010 feature film The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, playing mother to a family obsessed with go-karting and motorsports.
She has also had small roles in movies Absent Without Leave directed by John Laing, The Last Tattoo directed by John Reid, Gaylene Preston"s Perfect Strangers, and Christine Jeffs" Sylvia. She had a minor role as Morwen in the second film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
She won an International Actors Fellowship at the Globe in London for 2003. Mixing comedy and drama, the show became one of the highest rating and awarded in New Zealand history. Malcolm won New Zealand television awards for the role including the Qantas television Awards for Best Actress in 2005 and 2008, television Guide Best Actress in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and Air New Zealand Screen Awards Best Actress in 2007. Malcolm won the Woman"s Day Readers" Choice Award for Favourite New Zealand Female Personality in 2005, and New Zealand"s sexiest woman at the 2007 television Guide Best on the Box awards.
In 1999, Malcolm was one of the founding members of the New Zealand Actors" Company along with Tim Balme, Katie Wolfe and Simon Bennett.
