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Rena Owen, Actor, Actress, New Zealand, Star Wars, Once Were Warriors, Kiwi, The Dead Lands, film, movies, movie, The Last Witch Hunter, Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, Longmire, Shortland Street
Feb 16, 2024 · Rena Owen - Rena Owen made her name playing courageous battered wife Beth Heke, in landmark film Once Were Warriors. The film won her a run of awards, and international acclaim from Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald and Vogue.
Rena Owen plays 'older Whina' in the new biopic about Dame Whina Cooper's life, Whina. Photo / Jen Raoult. When hearing Owen's life story, it would almost appear as if playing the role of Dame...
Mar 5, 2021 · The veteran New Zealand actor Rena Owen plays the 80-year-old Maori matriarch Whina Cooper, who in 1975 led a land march of over 600 miles for indigenous rights. By Scott Roxborough. March 5,...
Rena Owen, Actor, Actress, New Zealand, Star Wars, Once Were Warriors, Kiwi, The Dead Lands, film, movies, movie, The Last Witch Hunter, Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones, Longmire, Shortland Street
Nov 17, 2022 · Listen • 14:35. Courtesy WhinaNZFilm/Jen Raoult. / Facebook. Rena Owen as Whina Cooper in "Whina." New Zealand's film industry has been leading the way for the last 30 years when it comes to telling Indigenous stories on the big screen. During that time, actress Rena Owen has been one of the most recognizable Maori in the industry.
Actor Rena Owen found fame through her role as matriarch Beth Heke in hard-hitting feature film Once Were Warriors. She went on to spend two decades years in Los Angeles, though she returned to New Zealand to act in Vincent Ward 's Rain of the Children and Fiona Samuel 's TV movie Piece of My Heart. In this ScreenTalk, Owen talks about:
