Toni Potter
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Toni Potter is a New Zealand actress, best known for her role on New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street
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, Waiouru
and Upper Hutt
. Toni spent her high school years in Christchurch
where she acted with community theatre groups including outdoor Shakespeare productions and Contemporary dance groups. She moved to Auckland
in 1998 to take up a place in the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at UNITEC, majoring in acting.
, a senior nurse troubled by alcohol and severe bad luck with men from 2005 to 2009. She featured in a number of major storylines, perhaps most notably in 2008, when she was captured by Joey Henderson
, who was revealed as the Ferndale Strangler. He took out her appendix, but she managed to escape him. In 2008 she broke up with her long-term boyfriend Craig Valentine
, after he found out that she slept with Guy Warner
, a mutual friend after a drunken fit of weakness. She then had to cope with the murder of Craig, and not soon after, give birth to the couple's daughter Kelly Piper, who was born in the back of an ambulance the day Craig was found dead. Kelly died soon after because of complications from being prematurely born. Alice then became involved with Ethan Pierce
, a doctor who was discovered as a criminal. She than had to help her friend Maia Jeffries
cover up Ethan's murder that Maia had committed. Potter left the show late 2009, when Alice accompanied a close friend and work colleague, Kip Denton
to Rarotonga, where they decided they wanted to start a life together and have remained ever since. It is unknown if the charactes will return.
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...
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Early life
Toni grew up with her sister, mother and father who was in the army in PapakuraPapakura
The Papakura District was the name of a local council territory in New Zealand's Auckland Region that existed from 1989 until 2010. The area made up the southernmost part of the Auckland metropolitan area....
, Waiouru
Waiouru
Waiouru is a small town in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is on the North Island Volcanic Plateau, 25 kilometres south-east of Mount Ruapehu, and in the Ruapehu District....
and Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt is a satellite city of Wellington. It is New Zealand's smallest city by population, the second largest by land area. It is in Greater Wellington.-Geography:Upper Hutt is 30 km north-east of Wellington...
. Toni spent her high school years in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
where she acted with community theatre groups including outdoor Shakespeare productions and Contemporary dance groups. She moved to Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
in 1998 to take up a place in the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at UNITEC, majoring in acting.
Shortland Street
Toni Potter played Alice PiperAlice Piper
Alison "Alice" Piper was a fictional character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was played by actress Toni Potter.Alice worked as a nurse at Shortland Street Hospital in the Emergency Department...
, a senior nurse troubled by alcohol and severe bad luck with men from 2005 to 2009. She featured in a number of major storylines, perhaps most notably in 2008, when she was captured by Joey Henderson
Joey Henderson
Joseph James "Joey" Henderson was a fictional character that appeared on New Zealand's longest running soap opera Shortland Street, and was the soap's first serial killer. Although always a suspect, the audience did not learn Joey was the killer until December 2007...
, who was revealed as the Ferndale Strangler. He took out her appendix, but she managed to escape him. In 2008 she broke up with her long-term boyfriend Craig Valentine
Craig Valentine
Dr. Craig Valentine is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He was portrayed by Renato Bartolomei for four years from May 2004 to September 2008....
, after he found out that she slept with Guy Warner
Guy Warner
Guy Warner is a fictional character in the long running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He was portrayed by Craig Parker in a guest role in 1992 before returning as core cast from 1993 to 1996...
, a mutual friend after a drunken fit of weakness. She then had to cope with the murder of Craig, and not soon after, give birth to the couple's daughter Kelly Piper, who was born in the back of an ambulance the day Craig was found dead. Kelly died soon after because of complications from being prematurely born. Alice then became involved with Ethan Pierce
Ethan Pierce
Dr. Ethan Pierce is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and was portrayed by Owen Black from August 2008 to January 2009 and again from May to June 2009...
, a doctor who was discovered as a criminal. She than had to help her friend Maia Jeffries
Maia Jeffries
Maia Anne Jeffries is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. She was portrayed by Anna Jullienne from mid 2004 to early 2011, with the character starring in numerous high profile storylines alongside her on screen family....
cover up Ethan's murder that Maia had committed. Potter left the show late 2009, when Alice accompanied a close friend and work colleague, Kip Denton
Kip Denton
Kip Denton was a fictional character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.-2007-2009:He is a doctor at Shortland Street Hospital, who had filled in for Dr. Craig Valentine while he was in Australia...
to Rarotonga, where they decided they wanted to start a life together and have remained ever since. It is unknown if the charactes will return.