Known For
Complete Filmography
Home Kills
2023
as Mr. Taioma
It's desperate times for a small rural home kills and butchery service, as big business begins to threaten their livelihood the owners fall into offer...
We Are Still Here
2023
as Hokonui
In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopia...
The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū
2022
When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it...
Smog
2022
Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband att...
Cousins
2021
as Older Hamuera
Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.
In Dark Places
2018
as Malcolm Rewa
In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to wi...
Elevation
2015
as Haki
A Maori gang member and a Neo-Nazi become trapped in an elevator and must put aside their differences to escape their predicament; all the while deali...
The Dead Lands
2014
as Ka
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...
The Last Saint
2014
as Joe
Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three...
The Pā Boys
2014
as Uncle Toa
The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of id...
Hitch Hike
2012
as Maka
On a trip to find his birth mother, 18-year-old Aaron is forced to hitch a ride with a rough- looking stranger, Maka. Out of fear, Aaron rejects Maka’...
Waitangi Day: What Really Happened
2011
as Nene
This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi's signing on 6 Febru...
Kawa
2010
as Kawariki
A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - ...
Warbrick
2009
as Joe Warbrick
This short follows Joe Warbrick (Calvin Tuteao), captain of the New Zealand Natives rugby team, as he tries to rouse his battle-weary players to head ...
Patu Ihu
2008
as Pakaru
After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.
The Man Who Lost His Head
2007
as Zac
Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an...
Crooked Earth
2001
as Sergeant Ropiha
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The elde...
The Feathers of Peace
2000
as Hiriwanu Tapu
This remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who...
Lawless
1999
as Willy Kaa
An undercover cop who has been undercover for too long has to prepare to make the biggest bust of his career to arrest a drug lord, is suddenly betray...
Once Were Warriors
1994
as Taka
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...