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ShavaughnRuakere

Taranaki, Te Atiawa
  • Actor
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Aged 18, New Plymouth-raised Shavaughn Ruakere landed her first screen job: five years presenting on children’s show What Now?. Then she moved to London, and won a gig co-presenting What Now?'s English equivalent, SM:TV Live. Since presenting for C4 back home, Ruakere has moved increasingly into acting. From 2011 she did a three year stint on Shortland Street as nurse Roimata Ngatai. Later she was a solo Mum with a brain tumour (in Darryl: An Outward Bound Story) and a Māori woman in 1914 Auckland (in miniseries When We Go To War). In 2016 Ruakere was the Los Angeles reporter for Seven Sharp.

Screenography

2020 Actor Film
The Citizen's Handbook
2020 Actor Series
That's a Bit Racist
2019 Presenter Television
2019 - 2026 As: Nerida Series
2018 As: Nurse Roimata Samuels Television

“I think for me it's just a matter of a camera light switching on, or walking onto a stage, and somehow I can be someone else.”

Shavaughn Ruakere on being able to go into performance mode, in her ScreenTalk interview with NZ On Screen

Related images

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Rose Matafeo  then a presenter for TVNZ U  interviews Shavaughn Ruakere at the 2011 launch of the 48Hours short film competition.