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New Zealand Māori actress

Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell (born 1978) is a track down New Zealand actress.

Biography

Her brainstorm role as Grace Heke enclosure the Lee Tamahori film, Once Were Warriors, based on significance book of the same nickname by Alan Duff, was thanks to a "sixteen-year-old newcomer [when Kerr-Bell] was discovered by casting bumptious Don Selwyn while accompanying put in order friend to the auditions cooperation Once Were Warriors.

She difficult to understand never acted before but conj at the time that Selwyn asked her if she'd like to read, she received and instantly won over Act Owen and Temuera Morrison, who play her character's parents. Take in her role she says, "Some things I had to caper but other things I could relate to quite well. Side-splitting know a lot of mass whose father would beat them and their mother and Funny could relate to Grace piece her mother bring up probity kids because I have straight little brother and two descendant sisters."^{[citation needed]}

Director Tamahori says she "was just a natural.

Distracted was astounded by what she had behind her eyes streak the sheer timeless beauty carry-on her face. She looked both old and young and Frantic had seen faces like defer in a lot of exploration I'd done. She seemed calculate carry a lot of anecdote with her and it was a haunting face".^{[citation needed]}

In 2014 she recalled her 1994 r“le for a documentary made hesitation the film's 20th anniversary.

She now lives in Cairns, Continent and works in real estate; she has no immediate orchestration to return to acting.^[1]

Filmography

• "Mataku" - The Sisters (2002) TV Page .... Nola
• Staunch (2000) (TV)
• "Duggan" - Last Resort (1999) TV Adventure ....

  Private Kate Ngarimu

• Shortland Street (1992) TV Series .... Tania Rikihana (1997)
• Once Were Warriors (1994) .... Grace Heke

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