Acting
Florence Hartigan
Acting
Biography
Florence Hartigan is an American-born, New Zealand-raised, LA-based actress and musician best known for playing the leading role in Phoenix Forgotten, produced by Ridley Scott (Alien), Wes Ball (Maze Runner) and Mark Canton (The Martian). Hartigan's other film credits include the animated feature, To Your Last Death, starring William Shatner and Morena Baccarin, Entrance (IFC/LA Film Festival), The Witch of Portabello (based on Paulo Cohello's novel), and the romantic comedy Magik and Rose. Hartigan was born in Ithaca New York, and raised in Ireland and New Zealand. At a young age, she started working as an actor, playing a guest star role in "Shortland Street," New Zealand's leading and longest-running TV drama. Hartigan went on to play a main role in Vanessa Alexander's feature film Magik and Rose, as well as several TV shows and pilots and award-winning short films, before taking a break from acting professionally to study film and theater at the University of Otago, Dunedin and the University of California, Berkeley. Post-college, she studied with leading New Zealand Meisner teacher Michael Saccente, before moving to Los Angeles to further her acting career. Hartigan has studied improv comedy and writing at the Upright Citizen's Brigade and The Groundlings, and acted in Comedy Central Studios' web project "Bro Dependent." Hartigan can also be seen in several projects produced by Funny or Die, and has written and acted in several of her own projects which FoD featured on their front page. She has also performed regularly at UCB, Nerdist, iO West, and other venues with her musical improv group, Kaboombox. When not acting or writing, Hartigan is a musician, and plays regularly at venues around Los Angeles, and in NY, as well as occasionally writing music for various TV and film projects.
Feature Films (5)
A barista, who lives a repetitive and anxious life in Los Angeles, believes that she is being watched. When her beloved dog disappears, she decides to give up and move back home, but first she invites all her friends to a going-away party - little do they know what she has planned for them.
Entrance
When 11-year-old Billie asks for her older sister's trust, both are in for a surprise. In this engaging spine tickler, an unexpected third party makes an appearance as Billie tries to reforge childhood bonds with her teenage sister.
Trust Me
As everyone in town gears up for the annual Hokitka Wild Foods Festival, Magik and Rose are locked in a poignant and funny off-beat tale of friendship and fertility. The result could end a good marriage, redefine the "perfect man", as well as discover what it means to be mother and daughter.
Magik & Rose
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Phoenix Forgotten
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
To Your Last Death
Television & Series (3)
Lulu, a loveable train wreck, goes on a laugh-out-loud ride as she struggles to balance her love of family and culture with finding her own path… one mistake at a time.
Kid Sister
Mack Leigh, faced with a philandering husband and a mountain of debt starts up an ethical brothel in small town New Zealand to provide for her family and put a new spin on sex and work.
Madam
Mia is fleeing addiction and leaving behind a professional life in tatters in Scotland. She accepts a wedding invitation from her estranged sister in New Zealand – only to find the would-be-bride dead upon arrival. Caught up in grief and pulled by a dark attraction to her late-sister's fiancé Ewan, Mia soon finds that familiarity among a small community breeds secrets and tensions, endangering the brittle fabric of the town itself.