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PeterKaa

Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu
  • Actor
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Following small parts on television, Peter Kaa won a trio of choice screen roles: an episode of breakthrough Māori drama series E Tipu e Rea (1989), sketch comedy show Away Laughing, and a central role in Barry Barclay's second feature, Te Rua. Kaa played a poet and activist fighting to return Māori carvings from a German museum. Four years later he got another big role in mini-series Savage Play, as a member of the New Zealand Natives rugby team which toured Great Britain in 1988. Kaa went on to direct plays for Māori theatre company Taki Rua, and act in Shortland Street and anthology series Mataku.

Screenography

2008 As: Sonny Scott Television
The Man Who Lost His Head
2007 As: Ben Corona Film
2002 As: Ratu (dad) Television
2001 As: Te Kino, As: Te Kotiro Television
Questions Two: Killing Tomorrow
2000 As: Blocker Television

“If you grow up on a marae you perform. It goes part and parcel with life there. I grew up on the Hinepare marae on New Zealand's East Coast and started orating when I was five-years-old. ”

Peter Kaa, in NZ Film, issue 43, May 1991

Related images

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Dianne Reynolds as Roimata and Peter Kaa as Eddie in E Tipu E Rea - Roimata.
Photo appears courtesy of the NZFC.
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A scene shot in Berlin, for Barry Barclay's feature Te Rua. From left, Peter Kaa as Peter Huaka, Whetū Fala, Fala (Merata) and Toby Mills (Tim).
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Filming the arrest after the siege for Te Rua: from left to right, Hori Ahipene, Whetū Fala, unidentified actor (as policeman), Peter Kaa, and German actor Maria Fitzi (facing camera).
Photograph by Andrezj Nowakowzki. Kindly supplied by the Dominion Post.
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A scene from miniseries Savage Play: Charlotte (Liza Walker) and Pony (Peter Kaa).