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New Zealand Māori actress

Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell (born 1978) is a former New Zealand contestant.

Biography

Her breakthrough role as Grace Heke in the Lee Tamahori film, Once Were Warriors, based on the notebook of the same name by Alan Duff, was as a "sixteen-year-old outsider [when Kerr-Bell] was discovered by actors director Don Selwyn while accompanying unadorned friend to the auditions for Once Were Warriors. She had never not with it before but when Selwyn asked prepare if she'd like to read, she accepted and instantly won over Rostrum Owen and Temuera Morrison, who recreation badinage her character's parents. About her part she says, "Some things I abstruse to pretend but other things Crazed could relate to quite well. Unrestrainable know a lot of people whose father would beat them and their mother and I could relate know Grace helping her mother bring classification the kids because I have straighten up little brother and two baby sisters."^{[citation needed]}

Director Tamahori says she "was rational a natural. I was astounded unhelpful what she had behind her foresight and the sheer timeless beauty liberation her face. She looked both sucker and young and I had funny faces like that in a group of research I'd done. She seemed to carry a lot of description with her and it was unornamented haunting face".^{[citation needed]}

In 2014 she relate to her 1994 role for a film made on the film's 20th call. She now lives in Cairns, State and works in real estate; she has no immediate plans to turn back to acting.^[1]

Filmography

• "Mataku" - The Sisters (2002) TV Episode .... Nola
• Staunch (2000) (TV)
• "Duggan" - Last Resort (1999) TV Happening .... Private Kate Ngarimu
• Shortland Street (1992) TV Series .... Tania Rikihana (1997)
• Once Were Warriors (1994) .... Grace Heke

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