Rena Owen
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.004 |
| Birthday | 1962-07-22 |
| Place of Birth | Bay of Islands, New Zealand |
| Also Known As |
1994
Once Were Warriors
7.4/421
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together duri...
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Once Were Warriors
2009
Veronika Decides to Die
5.9/246
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializ...
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Veronika Decides to Die
2003
Nemesis Game
5.1/38
Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an...
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Nemesis Game
2000
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
4.1/9
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
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All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
1998
Dance Me to My Song
6.2/12
The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After th...
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Dance Me to My Song
1989
Roimata
4.5/1
Roimata, a young Maori woman from the East Coast, travels to the city to meet her half-sister Girlie. Introduced to gang members, the scene is set for...
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Roimata
1994
Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk
0/0
A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.
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Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk
2014
The Last Survivors
6.2/210
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-o...
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The Last Survivors
2008
Amusement
5.625/348
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunt...
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Amusement
2004
The Land Has Eyes
5.6/8
Coming of age story about Viki a young pacific islander attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth of the Wa...
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The Land Has Eyes
2014
The Dead Lands
6.1/110
Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tr...
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The Dead Lands
2014
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
7.1/4
It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey to meet the cast and see where they are now.
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Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
1998
When Love Comes
5.1/11
Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual se...
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When Love Comes
2023
Maya
0/0
When a 15-year old, seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend, is lured into a sex trafficking scheme by a man she met online, s...
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Maya
2011
Alyce Kills
5.279/102
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and viol...
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Alyce Kills
1999
I'll Make You Happy
7/1
Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of Auckland, New Zealand. Just like her fellow stree...
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I'll Make You Happy
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
6.568/13174
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2005
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
7.434/13657
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power -- and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
3.8/211
After ex-con Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered by a biker gang, he is resurrected by the power of The Crow to avenge their deaths and reu...
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
2015
The Last Witch Hunter
5.973/3574
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unle...
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The Last Witch Hunter
2001
Soul Assassin
5.1/9
A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder. He vows to seek revenge on those responsible.
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Soul Assassin
2024
A Mistake
6/12
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to clos...
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A Mistake
2026
Moana
0/0
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches the island of an impetuous Chieftain, his willful daughter answers the Ocean's ca...
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Moana
2006
The Horrible Flowers
0/0
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The Horrible Flowers
1999
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
6.5/54
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his late...
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
2005
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
5.1/22
A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with hi...
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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
2008
Ocean of Pearls
4.9/5
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surg...
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Ocean of Pearls
2019
Escape and Evasion
6.3/28
After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier returns home in search of solace. Hiding a dark secret and confronted by an unrelenting journalist,...
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Escape and Evasion
2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
7/6109
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2009
A Beautiful Life
6/1
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a frien...
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A Beautiful Life
2009
Piece of My Heart
6/1
Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenag...
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Piece of My Heart
2009
Spout
0/0
A young boy and his grandmother become unlikely serial killers in a quest to eliminate his father's girlfriends, in this boldly original spin on the v...
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Spout
2020
Without a Body
0/0
After moving into a run-down farmhouse with his two daughters, a skeptical author seeks to uncover a sinister past that haunts the house and terrorize...
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Without a Body
1994
Rapa Nui
6.344/141
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge statue (moai) in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of...
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Rapa Nui
2022
Whina
7.6/5
The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed yet re...
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Whina
1995
Savage Play
0/0
During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father who he has never met. While there he falls in love w...
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Savage Play
2011
Absolute Killers
0/0
Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his con...
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Absolute Killers
2008
Rain of the Children
6.5/4
In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled...
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