Rena Owen
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Rena Owen (born 22 July 1962) is a New Zealand actress best known for stage, television, and film.
Owen is best known for her lead role in Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors and as Taun Were Warriors in George Lucas's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
Early life
Owen is of Welsh, English, Irish, and Maori descent, and was born in the New Zealand Bay of Islands. She grew up in Moerewa, raised Catholic in a small rural town in the Bay of Islands on the North Island. She was one of nine children. She performed in local Maori cultural groups and appeared in dramas and musicals while in high school. Owen pursued a career in medicine and spent three and a half years as a nurse at Auckland Hospital. Owen was born in London, England, and after she had been accepted as a registered nurse.
Career
Owen studied at the Actors Institute in London in the mid-1980s and worked extensively in British theatre. Voices From Prison for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Coordination of the Elephant Theatre, and Outside in for Theater New Zealand, which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival, are among the highlights. Owen wrote and appeared in Te Awa i Tahuti (The River That Ran Away), which had a huge London tour and was later published by NZ Playmarket in 1991.
Owen appeared in two dramas for Television NZ's E Tipu E Rea series on her return to New Zealand in 1989. The series was written, performed, edited, and produced by Maori, and it was the first of its kind to tell Maori tales. She worked extensively in theatre, writing, producing, directing, and as a dramaturge, and was a founding member of Taki Rua Theatre. Owen wrote and starred in Daddy's Girl, as well as appearing in two television series; Betty's Bunch & Shark in the Park. Recent theatre appearances include appearances in the classic NZ plays, Haruru Mai for the NZ International Arts Festival, and The Pohutukawa Tree for ATC. She has appeared in several stage readings for Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles, as well as a charity stage reading of Vagina Monologues for the City of West Hollywood. She was also the lead in a Hawaiian play called Fine Dancing, which was adapted and directed by Toa Fraser's play Bare for the Asian American Theatre Company in San Francisco (AATC).
Owen appeared in Once Were Warriors as Beth Heke alongside Temuera Morrison, who played her husband. From Beth's perspective, the majority of the tale is narrated, and her success has been lauded as "classic." Owen reprised his role in the film's sequel, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?" (1999).
Owen Welch in George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II – The Clones, Nee Alavar – Return to the Sith, and a cameo in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Owen played supporting and cameo roles in several international independent films, while still playing a reoccurring role in WB's Angel. Highlights include the NZ Canadian coproduction Nemesis Game, Garth Maxwell's When Love Comes, Rolf de Heer's acclaimed Dance Me to My Song, Vincent Ward's acclaimed Rain of the Children, and US thrillers Alyce Kills & The Well. She appeared in the Australian TV drama series Medivac in 1998 and recently in ABC's The Straits, a multi-ethnic crime family drama. She appeared in A&E's Longmire.
Owen and Morrison also completed their work on a film devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Once Were Warriors.
Rena appeared in the Freeform thriller series Siren as Helen, which premiered on March 29, 2018.