JarodRawiri
- Actor
Jarod Rawiri has played everyone from the nice guy next door (Shortland Street, 2007 movie Jinx Sister) to Hōne Heke. His performance as the Ngāpuhi chief in Waitangi: What Really Happened was nominated for an Aotearoa TV Award in 2011. In the same period the Toi Whakaari acting graduate played a grieving brother in film Matariki. In 2015 he began a three and a half year run on Shortland Street, as dad Mo Hannah. After offbeat wrestling drama Colonial Combat, he joined the detectives on The Brokenwood Mysteries in 2021. Rawiri's CV also includes Friends Like Her, quake drama Hope and Wire and Taika Waititi short Tama Tū.
Screenography
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards 2024 / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: for Friends Like Her
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Actor - Television: for What Really Happened: Waitangi
“I love comedy. I feel like comedy is kind of a hidden talent with me because often I get cast in quite serious dramatic roles.”