RoseMatafeo
- Comedian
- Actor
Rose Matafeo captured attention in 2018 when, at age 26, she won the top comedy award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Matafeo has also made a mark on-screen. She presented TVNZ youth show U Live, before writing and performing for Jono and Ben and Funny Girls, and becoming a regular face on English television, presenting Junior Taskmaster. She starred in Kiwi comedy movie Baby Done and British sitcom Starstruck.
Screenography
Biography
Rose Matafeo is of Samoan (her father) and Croatian and Scottish (her mother) descent. Her parents were Rastafarian, but she was more interested in the music of Burt Bacharach. Obsessed with television comedy as a child, she was a fan of Kiwi comic talent Leigh Hart, and encouraged her primary school friends to perform Monty Python sketches. At Auckland Girls' Grammar she "fell into" stand-up comedy. After doing a two week comedy boot camp at age 15, she won an award at the 2007 NZ International Comedy Festival. At 21, she won the coveted Billy T comedy award.
Awards
2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Best Comedy Show: Horndog
2018 Fred Award (NZ International Comedy Festival)
Nominated for Best New Zealand Show: Horndog
“I think I have a weird mix of really powerful ambition and also harsh self-deprecation...”
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