25 Years of Shortland Street: Shane Cortese

Shane Cortese says his character Dom Thompson was the darkest character Shortland Street had ever had.

As Shortland Street turns 25, New Zealand on Screen opens the archives to bring us 25 years of trivia.

Before lyrca-clad nights on Dancing with the Stars, getting all god-like on The Almighty Johnsons, being nice-guy Mac on Nothing Trivial (and a career in real estate) Shane Cortese once played a character so vile, fans relished his eventual death.

Terrorising Ferndale for almost two years, Dominic Thompson managed to marry, murder or menace a fair whack of the Shortland Street cast. Here Cortese remembers going to the dark side - and loving every minute of it.

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