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Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is a New Zealand actress. She made her acting debut in the drama film Whale Rider (2002), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest nominee in such category.
Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand drama film written and directed by Niki Caro.Based on the 1987 novel The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a twelve-year-old Māori girl whose ambition is to become the chief of the tribe.
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 1990) – Academy Award-nominated actress; Milo Cawthorne (born 1989) – actor; Lisa Chappell (born 1968) – actress; John Clarke (1948–2017) – actor, comedian (moved to Australia) Jemaine Clement (born 1974) – half of the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords; Danielle Cormack (born 1970) – actress
Note: Introduced in series 3. The actress Siobhan Marshall also played Mia, Axl's feminine form, in a series 2 episode. Gaia : Keisha Castle-Hughes: Axl's flatmate, a nurse. She and Axl love each other but do not realise their feelings at first. After a one-night stand with him, Gaia believed Axl had just used her, so she left.
The film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig, Ciarán Hinds, and Shohreh Aghdashloo. The Nativity Story premiered in Vatican City on November 26, 2006, making it the first film to hold a world premiere in the city, [2] and was released in the United States on December 1, 2006, by New Line Cinema ...
The film is the story of Sobran Jodeau (Jérémie Renier), an ambitious young peasant winemaker, and the three loves of his life – his beautiful wife Celeste (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the proudly intellectual baroness Aurora de Valday (Vera Farmiga), and Xas (Gaspard Ulliel), an angel who strikes up an unlikely but enduring friendship that borders on eroticism with him.
She directed thirteen-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes to a performance nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. The film had a budget of $2 million, [9] which is considered small for a major film, but it was still considered to be a good interpretation of the indigenous story that it was trying to interpret and demonstrate.
The film also stars Australian-born New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes who was the main character in Whale Rider. Catanzariti is also the lead singer for Sometimes, who feature in the film. In 2007, she had a supporting role in Closed for Winter, alongside Natalie Imbruglia. She has also appeared in the television series Love Child.