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JoeNaufahu

  • Actor
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Joe Naufahu turned to acting when a promising rugby career was cut short by a knee injury. He’s appeared on both the television screen and the big screen, including Go Girls, global hit Game of Thrones, crime show My Life Is Murder, and a critically praised part in movie The Last Saint. His previous sporting career has proven handy too, with a number of turns playing a professional sportsman — including as two past All Blacks.

Screenography

Teine Sā - The Ancient Ones (excerpts)
2021 As: Eli (episode 3) Web
Head High
2020 - 2021 As: Jesse Roberts Series
Enemy Within
2019 As: Ben Kanahele Film
Joe & Jayden's Bay of Islands Challenge - Air New Zealand
2019 Subject Commercial

Biography

Joseph Naufahu has made a living as an athlete. However when injuries took their toll, the former Canterbury, Southland and New Zealand representative rugby player rediscovered a passion for acting. He’s since appeared on-screen in several high-profile local productions, plus HBO megahit Game Of Thrones.

“I got into acting because my passion for rugby was taken away from me, and I found it again with acting.”

— Joe Naufahu in an interview with Stuff, 30 June 2020

Related images

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A publicity image for My Life Is Murder, from left to right: Reuben Wulf (Joe Naufahu), Madison Feliciano (Ebony Vagulans), Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) and Harry Henare (Rawiri Jobe).