Rena Owen made her name playing the courageous battered wife in Kiwi blockbuster Once Were Warriors. The film won her a run of awards, and international acclaim from Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. Since then Owen has worked on films in New Zealand, Hungary, Fiji and the United States.
Rena Owen, wired with nervous energy, makes a formidable heroine. She exudes an angry, earth sensuality that brings Jeanne Moreau to mind.
– Newsweek critic David Ansen, on Once Were Warriors.
ScreenTalk Interview with Rena - December 2008