Vanessa Rare is a New Zealand film and television actress, screenwriter and director. She is of Ngāti Pu,

Ngāti Porou Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi traditionally located in the East Cape and Gisborne regions of the North Island of New Zealand. Ngāti Porou is affiliated with the 28th Maori Battalion and has the second-largest affiliation of any iwi in New Zealand ...

Ngāti Pukenga Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...

and Ngāpuhi

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descent.

Career

Rare's screen debut was as Rata in the 1990 comedy film '' Ruby and Rata''. She has acted in a number of movies, as well as holding an extended role on the shop opera ''

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'' as Te Hana Hudson from 2001 to 2005. In the 1990s Rare studied literature and television and film studies at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

and began to write and direct television series and short films.

Recognition

In 2003 Rare was nominated for Best Script, Single Episode of a Drama Series or Serial for ''Mataku'' at the

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. In 2014 she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Z-Nail Gang'' at the

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Filmography

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