TroyKingi
- Actor
- Musician
Having gained attention as a musician, Troy Kingi ended up playing one on-screen in 2013 hit Mt Zion. He’s since acted in other features, including a cameo as an Auckland Warriors loving dad in Hunt For The Wilderpeople. As a musician, he has been nominated for a Silver Scroll, won the prestigious Taite Music Prize and collaborated on a number two single ('Aotearoa'). On the small screen he played All Black Piri Weepu in TV movie The Kick, and joined the second season of Find Me a Māori Bride. In 2020 he co-starred in TV movie Toke, as one of a trio of orchard workers who accidentally grow some unusually strong cannabis.
Screenography
Awards
2024 APRA Silver Scroll Awards (Australian Performing Right Association)
Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award (with Arli Liberman): for The Mountain
2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Original Score (with Jonathan Crayford, Choice Vaughan and Diggy Dupé): for The Panthers
“I'm happy that I get acting jobs, but it's more luck than anything.”