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LawrenceMakoare

Ngāti Whātua
  • Actor
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After early screen work as a stuntman, Lawrence Makoare went on to don various disguises for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, including that of fearsome Uruk-hai Lurtz in the first film. In the same period he was nominated for an NZ Film Award for Crooked Earth, after co-starring opposite Temuera Morrison as a Māori radical running a dope operation. Since then he has played baddie Mr Kil in Bond movie Die Another Day, and was nominated again after playing a legendary warrior in Toa Fraser action film The Dead Lands. Makoare's work also includes big budget TV series Marco Polo and Cook Islands murder mystery Tatau.

Screenography

2025 As: Brooks Film
2023 As: Akatārewa Film
Occupation: Rainfall
2020 Actor Film
2016 Guest Television

Awards

2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: for The Dead Lands

2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor: for Crooked Earth

“In the main roles, Makoare and (Temuera) Morrison have screen presence to burn... ”

Peter Calder, in an NZ Herald review of Crooked Earth, 18 August 2001