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Kura Leigh Forrester (born 1985) is a New Zealand comedian, actor and writer. In 2019, she won the Billy T Award for best emerging comedian, for her show Kura Woulda Shoulda . She formerly appeared as core cast member Desdemona Schmidt on prime-time soap opera Shortland Street .
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Kura Te Waru Rewiri (born 1950) is a New Zealand artist, academic and educator. Art historian Deidre Brown described her as "one of Aotearoa, New Zealand's most celebrated Māori women artists." [ 1 ] : 98
Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End is a 2024 New Zealand historical drama film directed by Michael Jonathan, based on a screenplay by Tim Worrall. [2] [4] Presented in the Māori language, it tells the story of the siege of Ōrākau in 1864 during the New Zealand Wars from the perspective of two Māori teenagers.
The first play performed in te reo Māori for adult rather than child audiences to tour New Zealand, He Kura E Huna Ana, premiered at the Forge at the Court Theatre in 1995 in a development season. [20] In 2015 Taki Rua produced Briar Grace-Smiths' play Ngā Pou Wahine twenty years after the first presentation at Taki Rua in 1995.
[1] [2] He was educated by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at St Michael's school, Rotorua, and St Peter's Maori College in Auckland. [1] In 1966, he married Mary Agnes Sharry, and the couple went on to have four children. [1] He was the uncle of actor Cliff Curtis. [3] Curtis played representative rugby union for Counties and Bay ...