Rena Owen: Being Beth Heke...

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Rena Owen: Being Beth Heke...

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Actor Rena Owen found fame through her role as matriarch Beth Heke in hard-hitting feature film Once Were Warriors. She went on to spend two decades years in Los Angeles, though she returned to New Zealand to act in Vincent Ward's Rain of the Children and Fiona Samuel's TV movie Piece of My Heart. In this ScreenTalk, Owen talks about: Her beginnings in theatre as an actor and playwright Getting her television break on landmark Māori drama series E Tipu e Rea How Don Selwyn was a mentor to ma...

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