Elizabeth Hawthorne, ONZM, is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

-born actress who is best known for her role as Mrs. Macready in the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Andrew Adamson and based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of...

and the Peter Jackson supernatural comedy The Frighteners

The Frighteners

The Frighteners is a 1996 comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with his wife, Fran Walsh. The film's cast includes Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey and Chi McBride...

. She played Judge Harriet Caldwell in the 2004 TV movie, Raising Waylon

Raising Waylon

Raising Waylon is a 2004 romantic comedy television film by Sam Pillsbury.-Synopsis:Réginald and Julia are obliged to raise the son of their friends who have died in an accident, because they are his godfather and godmother.-Credits:...

. She is the wife of actor Raymond Hawthorne and mother to actresses, Sophia and Emmeline Hawthorne.

Television

• Shortland Street
  Shortland Street
  Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...
  
   (1995-1996) ... Dr. Julia Thornton
• Outrageous Fortune
  Outrageous Fortune (TV series)
  Outrageous Fortune was a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and was produced by South Pacific Pictures...
  
   (2007-2010) ... Ngaire Munroe
• Burying Brian
  Burying Brian
  Burying Brian is a New Zealand television series produced by Eyeworks Touchdown which premiered on Television New Zealand's TV ONE on 2 July 2008, and ran for 6 episodes. The series is about Jodie and her three female friends. At the beginning of the first episode, Jodie's husband Brian dies during...
  
   (2008)... Rhonda Welch
• Legend of the Seeker
  Legend of the Seeker
  Legend of the Seeker is a television series based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Distributed in U.S. by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, ABC Studios produced the series, which was its first foray into broadcast syndication, with Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Joshua Donen, Ned Nalle and...
  
   (2010) ... Prelate Annalina Aldurren
• Nothing Trivial
  Nothing Trivial
  Nothing Trivial is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, produced by South Pacific Pictures. The series is created by the duo of Gavin Strawhan and the co creator of Outrageous Fortune, Rachel Lang...
  
   (2011) ... Anne

Film

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a 2005 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Andrew Adamson and based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published and second chronological novel in C. S. Lewis's children's epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of...
  
   (2005) ... Mrs Macready
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is a 2009 American film directed by Patrick Tatopoulos. It is the third installment in the Underworld series, focusing primarily on the origins of some characters and the events leading to the Vampire-Lycan war, depicted in the previous films Underworld and...
  
   (2009) ... Orsova

Awards

Hawthorne was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit

New Zealand Order of Merit

The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order established in 1996 "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rendered meritorious service to the Crown and nation or who have become distinguished by their eminence, talents, contributions or other merits."The order includes five...

in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2001, for services to the theatre.