Rena Owen

Rena Owen

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.

  • Title: Rena Owen
  • Popularity: 6.423
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1962-07-22
  • Place of Birth: Bay of Islands, New Zealand
  • Homepage: https://johnsonlaird.com/our-actors/Rena-Owen
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Rena Owen Movies

  • 1994
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    Once Were Warriors

    Once Were Warriors

    7.4 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Veronika Decides to Die

    Veronika Decides to Die

    5.9 2009 HD

    After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who...

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  • 2003
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    Nemesis Game

    Nemesis Game

    5.1 2003 HD

    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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  • 2000
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    All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

    All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

    4.1 2000 HD

    A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.

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  • 1998
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    Dance Me to My Song

    Dance Me to My Song

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After...

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  • 1989
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    Roimata

    Roimata

    4.5 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk

    Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk

    1 1994 HD

    A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

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  • 2014
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    The Last Survivors

    The Last Survivors

    6.2 2014 HD

    In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a...

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  • 2008
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    Amusement

    Amusement

    5.6 2008 HD

    While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being...

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  • 2004
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    The Land Has Eyes

    The Land Has Eyes

    5.6 2004 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    The Dead Lands

    The Dead Lands

    6.1 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

    Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now?

    7.1 2014 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    When Love Comes

    When Love Comes

    5.1 1998 HD

    Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual...

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  • 2023
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    Maya

    Maya

    1 2023 HD

    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,...

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  • 2011
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    Alyce Kills

    Alyce Kills

    5.3 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    I'll Make You Happy

    I'll Make You Happy

    7 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

    Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

    6.569 2002 HD

    Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot...

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  • 2005
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    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

    Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

    7.4 2005 HD

    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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  • 2005
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    The Crow: Wicked Prayer

    The Crow: Wicked Prayer

    3.8 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    The Last Witch Hunter

    The Last Witch Hunter

    6 2015 HD

    The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on...

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  • 2001
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    Soul Assassin

    Soul Assassin

    5.1 2001 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    A Mistake

    A Mistake

    5.95 2024 HD

    In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues...

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  • 2026
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    Moana

    Moana

    1 2026 HD

    In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches the island of an impetuous Chieftain, his willful daughter answers the Ocean's...

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  • 2006
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    The Horrible Flowers

    The Horrible Flowers

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1999
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    What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

    What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

    6.5 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

    Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

    5.1 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Ocean of Pearls

    Ocean of Pearls

    4.9 2008 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    Escape and Evasion

    Escape and Evasion

    6.286 2019 HD

    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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  • 2001
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    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    7 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life

    6 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Piece of My Heart

    Piece of My Heart

    6 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Spout

    Spout

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Without a Body

    Without a Body

    1 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Rapa Nui

    Rapa Nui

    6.3 1994 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    Whina

    Whina

    7.6 2022 HD

    The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed yet...

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  • 1995
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    Savage Play

    Savage Play

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Absolute Killers

    Absolute Killers

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Rain of the Children

    Rain of the Children

    6.5 2008 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Out of the Shadows

    Out of the Shadows

    7.1 2017 HD

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  • 2022
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    Whina

    Whina

    7.6 2022 HD

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  • 1999
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    Angel

    Angel

    7.9 1999 HD

    The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption....

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  • 2007
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    East West 101

    East West 101

    6.7 2007 HD

    Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.

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  • 2021
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    Vegas

    Vegas

    4.7 2021 HD

    A business owner is thrust into New Zealand's dark underbelly after a million-dollar drug deal goes wrong on a blood-stained night, setting off a...

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  • 1996
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    Medivac

    Medivac

    1 1996 HD

    Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an...

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  • 2021
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    RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under

    RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under

    5.3 2021 HD

    Drag queen contestants compete in an elimination-style contest and strut their stuff in a variety of challenges - all to prove that they’ve got...

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  • 2021
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    Star Wars: The Bad Batch

    Star Wars: The Bad Batch

    8.2 2021 HD

    The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.

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  • 2012
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    The Straits

    The Straits

    7.3 2012 HD

    Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly...

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  • 2018
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    Siren

    Siren

    7.7 2018 HD

    The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore...

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  • 2017
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    The Orville

    The Orville

    7.605 2017 HD

    Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

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  • 2022
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    Super Giant Robot Brothers!

    Super Giant Robot Brothers!

    6.8 2022 HD

    Two squabbling robot brothers battle bloodthirsty kaijus, supernatural disasters and mundane personal issues as they adapt to the trials of growing...

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  • 2020
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    The Gloaming

    The Gloaming

    6.38 2020 HD

    When an unidentified woman is found brutally murdered, Detective Molly McGee teams up with fellow cop, Alex O’Connell—with whom she...

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  • 2012
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    Longmire

    Longmire

    7.7 2012 HD

    A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels...

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  • 2012
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    Longmire

    Longmire

    7.7 2012 HD

    A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels...

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