Rena Owen
Birthday: 1962-07-22
Place of Birth: Bay of Islands, New Zealand
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.
Movies
Once Were Warriors
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...
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Veronika Decides to Die
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the super...
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Nemesis Game
Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from cl...
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All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his ch...
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Dance Me to My Song
The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologi...
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Roimata
Roimata, a young Maori woman from the East Coast, travels to the city to meet her half-sister Girlie...
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Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk
A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a p...
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The Last Survivors
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts vio...
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Amusement
While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why s...
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The Land Has Eyes
Coming of age story about Viki a young pacific islander attempting to escape the stifling conformity...
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The Dead Lands
Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and ...
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Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?
It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey...
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When Love Comes
Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig a...
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Maya
When a 15-year old, seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend, is lured into a...
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Alyce Kills
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a ...
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I'll Make You Happy
Siggy (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is a teenage "bad girl" who lives and works in a red-light district of...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-W...
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The evil Darth Sidious enacts his final plan for unlimited power – and the heroic Jedi Anakin Skywal...
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The Crow: Wicked Prayer
After ex-con Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered by a biker gang, he is resurrected by th...
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The Last Witch Hunter
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among...
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Soul Assassin
A security agent at an investment bank uncovers espionage that is linked to his girlfriend's murder....
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A Mistake
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is th...
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Moana
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches the island of an impetuous Chie...
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The Horrible Flowers
Afraid of her imminent success, Bettina, the leader of a threadbare garage band, nearly destroys her...
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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks...
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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost ma...
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Ocean of Pearls
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But...
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Escape and Evasion
After his men are killed in Burma, a lone soldier returns home in search of solace. Hiding a dark se...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...
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A Beautiful Life
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the...
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Piece of My Heart
Adapted from Renee's 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused...
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Spout
A young boy and his grandmother become unlikely serial killers in a quest to eliminate his father's ...
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Without a Body
After moving into a run-down farmhouse with his two daughters, a skeptical author seeks to uncover a...
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Rapa Nui
Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make c...
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Whina
The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rig...
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Savage Play
During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father wh...
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Absolute Killers
Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn ...
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Rain of the Children
In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants...
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The Mark
When Eden, an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission, pulls single father Ben Dawson into h...
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