Rena Owen

Person Details

Birthday: 1962-07-22 07:16:12

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Homepage: https://johnsonlaird.com/our-actors/Rena-Owen

Movie Involvements: 33

TV Involvements: 9

Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rena Owen is a New Zealand actress in film, theatre and television. She is of Maori and Pakeha (European) descent. Owen is most well known in the lead role of Beth in the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors (1994) directed by Lee Tamahori. The role earned Owen a number of awards including Best Actress at the Montreal World Film Festival and San Diego International Film Festival. Owen has also worked with arthouse director Rolf de Heer, one of Australia's most well known directors, in the film Dance Me to My Song (1998). Owen played the role of Rix in the movie which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the AFI Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rena Owen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
2022	Older Whina Cooper	Whina 2022-11-03 Movie
	Sarge (voice)	Super Giant Robot Brothers! 2022-08-04 TV Show
2021	Taun We (voice)	Star Wars: The Bad Batch 2021-05-04 TV Show
	Self - Guest Judge	RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under 2021-05-01 TV Show
	Rawinia Duncan	Vegas 2021-04-19 TV Show
2020	N/A	Without a Body 2020-10-27 Movie
	Grace Cochran	The Gloaming 2020-01-01 TV Show
2019	Michelle Pennyshaw	Escape and Evasion 2019-10-24 Movie
2018	Helen Hubbell	Siren 2018-03-29 TV Show
2017	Heveena	The Orville 2017-09-10 TV Show
2015	Glaeser	The Last Witch Hunter 2015-10-21 Movie
2014	Grandmother	The Dead Lands 2014-09-04 Movie
	N/A	Absolute Killers 2014-08-19 Movie
	Self	Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? 2014-08-18 Movie
	Claire	The Last Survivors 2014-06-12 Movie
2012	Medicine Woman	Longmire 2012-06-03 TV Show
	N/A	Longmire 2012-06-03 TV Show
	Kitty Montebello	The Straits 2012-02-02 TV Show
2011	Danielle	Alyce Kills 2011-09-14 Movie
2009	Kat	Piece of My Heart 2009-11-26 Movie
	Oma	Spout 2009-11-21 Movie
	Sam	A Beautiful Life 2009-10-02 Movie
	Nurse Josephine	Veronika Decides to Die 2009-05-16 Movie
2008	Anna Berisha	Ocean of Pearls 2008-12-14 Movie
	Psychiatrist	Amusement 2008-10-09 Movie
	Puhi	Rain of the Children 2008-09-25 Movie
2007	Mere Hahunga	East West 101 2007-12-06 TV Show
2005	Nee Alavar	Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005-05-17 Movie
	Mary	The Crow: Wicked Prayer 2005-05-13 Movie
	"Crazy" Norma	Mee-Shee: The Water Giant 2005-01-01 Movie
2004	Warrior Woman	The Land Has Eyes 2004-01-01 Movie
2003	Emily Gray	Nemesis Game 2003-09-16 Movie
2002	Taun We (voice)	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002-05-15 Movie
2001	Karina	Soul Assassin 2001-08-23 Movie
	Ticket Taker	A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001-06-29 Movie
2000	Soona Fualaau	All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story 2000-01-18 Movie
1999	Dinza	Angel 1999-10-05 TV Show
	Beth Heke	What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? 1999-05-27 Movie
	Mickie	I'll Make You Happy 1999-04-08 Movie
1998	Rix	Dance Me to My Song 1998-10-20 Movie
	Katie	When Love Comes 1998-09-16 Movie
1996	N/A	Medivac 1996-09-10 TV Show
1995	Takiora	Savage Play 1995-01-01 Movie
1994	Hitirenga	Rapa Nui 1994-09-09 Movie
	Beth Heke	Once Were Warriors 1994-09-02 Movie
	Hinekaro	Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk 1994-01-01 Movie
1989	Girlie	Roimata 1989-01-01 Movie
	Sandy	Maya Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv