![]() ![]() "Duggan" - Last Resort (1999) TV Episode."Mataku" - The Sisters (2002) TV Episode. ![]() This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising portrayal of Maoaris in New Zealand society. She now lives in Cairns, Australia and works in real estate she has no immediate plans to return to acting. Alan Duff's groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked about books ever published in New Zealand and now the basis of a major New Zealand film. In 2014 she recalled her 1994 role for a documentary made on the film's 20th anniversary. She seemed to carry a lot of history with her and it was a haunting face". She looked both old and young and I had seen faces like that in a lot of research I'd done. I was astounded by what she had behind her eyes and the sheer timeless beauty of her face. I know a lot of people whose father would beat them and their mother and I could relate to Grace helping her mother bring up the kids because I have a little brother and two baby sisters." ĭirector Tamahori says she "was just a natural. About her role she says, "Some things I had to pretend but other things I could relate to quite well. ![]() She had never acted before but when Selwyn asked her if she'd like to read, she accepted and instantly won over Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison, who play her character's parents. Her breakthrough role as Grace Heke in the Lee Tamahori film, Once Were Warriors, based on the book of the same name by Alan Duff, was as a "sixteen-year-old newcomer was discovered by casting director Don Selwyn while accompanying a friend to the auditions for Once Were Warriors. Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell (born 1978) is a New Zealand Māori actress. ![]()
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