Margaret Umbers

Born: None

Margaret Umbers is a New Zealander actress. After being kidnapped by Bruno Lawrence in Smash Palace (1981) and battling mutants in Death Warmed Up (1984), Margaret (aka Makareta) Umbers was one of the bandmembers on TV’s Heroes (1984-1986). An actor since age eight, she later acted and sang in Australia, before her character faked medical qualifications and tried to kill Chris Warner on Shortland Street (1992). These days Umbers sings in bands, and manages a Northland music studio.


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Death Warmed Up

as Sandy
Released: 1984-11-22

A kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a...

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Smash Palace

as Rose
Released: 1981-05-01

Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace"....

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Mr. Wrong

as Samantha
Released: 1986-05-02

A small town woman, fresh to the city, buys a used Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a woman who...

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Bridge to Nowhere

as Tanya
Released: 1986-05-16

Kids on an outing in the forest come up against a mysterious hermit who lives on the other side...

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Shortland Street

as Katherine Blake
First aired: 1992-05-25

The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.

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E Street

as Casey Watts
First aired: 1989-01-24

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...

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