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Miriama McDowell

Actor [Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi]

Miriama McDowell made a splash in 2005 with a trio of roles: her award-nominated turn as one of the sisters in Toa Fraser film No. 2, a cop on TV's Interrogation, and a starring role as a WWII wife in an episode of Taonga. Since then the Toi Whakaari graduate has featured in sci-fi thriller This is Not My Life and acclaimed film The Dark Horse. In miniseries Hope and Wire she was a wife escaping post-quake Christchurch. McDowell won two awards after co-starring as a pregnant woman in 2015 film The Great Maiden's Blush. She went on to act in rugby drama Head High and thriller Coming Home in the Dark, and played Whina Cooper in biopic Whina.

...wow, the things I had to do in that film. I had to give birth. I had to do drag racing. I had to float down the Hutt River in jeans and a sweatshirt in the middle of winter . . . you feel most alive as an actor when you’re doing things that you don’t get the opportunity to do in real life. Challenge is the best thing that can happen to us. Miriama McDowell on her award-winning role in film The Great Maiden's Blush, E-Tangata, 22 April 2017

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Whina

2022, As: Whina Cooper (younger) - Film

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Coming Home in the Dark

2021, As: Jill - Film

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Waru

2017, As: Bash - Film

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Mahana

2016, As: Aunt Saphora - Film

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Find Me a Māori Bride

2015 - 2017, As: Elizabeth Partridge - Television

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The Great Maiden's Blush

2015, As: Bunny - Film

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Happy Hour

2014, As: Various roles - Television

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Hope and Wire - Full Series

2014, As: Donna - Television

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The Dark Horse

2014, As: Sandy - Film

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

2019, As: Tania, Intimacy Advisor - Television

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Happy Hour - First Episode

2014, As: Blades gang leader - Television

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Hope and Wire

2014, As: Donna - Television

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The Brokenwood Mysteries - First Episode

2014, As: Tania - Television

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The Waterside

2014, As: Donna - Music video

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Auckland Daze - Series Two

2013, As: Miriama (episode 4) - Web

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What Really Happened - Waitangi

2011, As: Hariata Rongo - Television

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This is Not My Life

2010, As: Jessica Wilmott - Television

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Dean Spanley

2008, As: Foxy Lady - Film

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No. 2

2006, As: Hibiscus - Film

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Taonga

2005, As: Oha Bennett - Television

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Wandering Eye

2005, Subject - Music video

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Interrogation

2005, As: Constable Awhina James - Television

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Interrogation - First Episode

2005, As: Constable Awhina James - Television

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Outrageous Fortune

2005 - 2010, As: Rob - Television

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Taonga: Til Death Do Us Part

2005, As: Alby Bennett - Television

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Kerosene Creek

2004, As: Wiki - Short Film

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Spring Flames

2003, As: Rose - Short Film

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Mataku

2005, As: Waimarama - Television

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Shortland Street

2006 - 2007, As: Holly Makatea - Television