# Toni Potter > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Toni_Potter > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Toni_Potter.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Potter > Source revision: 1325022346 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|New Zealand actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2015}} '''Toni Potter''' (born {{Birth based on age as of date|32|2011|04|13|noage=1}}){{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10718802 | title=Toni Potter: Reality bites | date=13 April 2011 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=29 March 2015 | first=Greg | last=Dixon }} is a New Zealand actress, best known for her role on the New Zealand medical drama, ''[Shortland Street](/source/Shortland_Street)''. ==Early life== Potter grew up with her sister, mother and father who was in the army in [Papakura](/source/Papakura_Military_Camp), [Waiouru](/source/Waiouru) and [Upper Hutt](/source/Upper_Hutt).{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/television/news/article.cfm?c_id=339&objectid=10530031&pnum=3 |title=Living dangerously |author=Lang, Sarah |date=1 September 2008 |work=[The New Zealand Herald](/source/The_New_Zealand_Herald) |accessdate=23 November 2011}} She spent her high school years in [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch) where she acted with community theatre groups including outdoor Shakespeare productions and Contemporary dance groups. She moved to [Auckland](/source/Auckland) in 1998 to take up a place in the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at UNITEC, majoring in acting. ==''Shortland Street''== Potter played [Alice Piper](/source/List_of_Shortland_Street_characters_(2005)), a senior nurse troubled by alcohol and severe bad luck with men, from 2005 to 2009. She featured in a number of major storylines, including one in 2008 in which she was captured by [Joey Henderson](/source/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](/source/Craig_Valentine), after he found out that she slept with [Guy Warner](/source/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](/source/Ethan_Pierce), a doctor who was discovered as a criminal. She then had to help her friend [Maia Jeffries](/source/Maia_Jeffries) cover up Ethan's murder that Maia had committed. Potter left the show late 2009, when Alice accompanied a close friend and colleague, [Kip Denton](/source/Kip_Denton) to Rarotonga, where they decided they wanted to start a life together and have remained ever since. It is unknown if the characters will return.{{cite web|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/shortland-street-characters/alice-piper-660284 |title=Shortland Street | Television New Zealand | Entertainment | TV One, TV2 |publisher=Tvnz.co.nz |date= |accessdate=2015-03-28}} ==Recognition== In 2008, Potter was nominated under the category of best performance by an actress in general television in the [Qantas Film and Television Awards](/source/New_Zealand_film_and_television_awards).{{cite web|url=http://www.southpacificpictures.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85 |title=Home |publisher=South Pacific Pictures |date= |accessdate=2015-03-28}} She lost out to [Robyn Malcolm](/source/Robyn_Malcolm).[http://www.qantasfilmandtelevisionawards.co.nz/index.asp?pageID=2145866164] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223231947/http://www.qantasfilmandtelevisionawards.co.nz/index.asp?pageID=2145866164 |date=23 December 2008 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{IMDb name|2110021}} *[http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/838018/676852 Television New Zealand] *[http://johnsonlaird.com/actors/Toni_Potter Johnson Laird Talent Agency Profile] {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Potter, Toni}} Category:1970s births Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:New Zealand television actresses Category:Unitec Institute of Technology alumni Category:New Zealand soap opera actresses Category:21st-century New Zealand actresses --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Toni Potter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Potter) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Potter?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.