title: Stephen Papps
text: # Stephen Papps
  
  Stephen Papps is an actor from New Zealand. He trained at the Academy Corporate Theatre Actors Workshop and the Wellington Performing Arts Centre, New Zealand.
  
  ## Career
  
  Stephen Papps has appeared in projects that range from the critically acclaimed stage productions The 39 Steps and Mark Twain & Me In Maoriland to the feature films The Piano and Braindead. His television appearances include such series as perennial favourite Shortland Street and Disney's Legend of the Seeker. Stephen also wrote and performed the highly regarded BLOWING IT, which he performed world-wide and for which he was nominated for a Chapman Tripp theatre award.
  
  He began his career in 1991 with the award-winning feature The End of the Golden Weather, for which he won best actor. In Russian Snark, Papps played the lead role of Misha, a Latvian-born Russian filmmaker whose career has seen better days. He was nominated for best actor at the Maverick Film awards 2011 and the New Zealand Film Awards 2010.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  | Year | Film | Role | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2010 | Russian Snark | Misha |
  | 2009 | Power Rangers R.P.M | Mr Landsdown | "Ranger Yellow: Part 2" |
  | 2009 | Power Rangers R.P.M | Mr Landsdown | "Ranger Yellow" |
  | 2007 | We're Here to Help | Doug Johnson |
  | 2002 | Murder in Greenwich | The Maryland Man |
  | 1998 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | The Darkness | "Somewhere over the Rainbow Bridge" |
  | 1998 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | The Darkness | "Norse by Norsevest" |
  | 1996 | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys | Tritos | "Protean Challenge" |
  | 1996 | Xena: Warrior Princess | See'er | "Orphan of War" |
  | 1993 | The Piano | Bluebeard |
  | 1992 | Braindead | Zombie McGruder |
  | 1991 | The End of the Golden Weather | Firpo |
  
  ### Theatre
  
  | Year | Title | Role |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2010 | Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland | Mark Twain |
  | 2009 | The 39 Steps | Various |
  | 2007 | Thom Pain | Lead |
  | 2006 | Ying Tong | Spike Milligan |
  | 2003 | Amadeus | Salieri |
  | 2001 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead | Tragedian |
  