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Vicky Haughton

Actor, Performer

Vicky Haughton began her screen career as a dancer; she co-starred in variety show VJM and performed in 12 Bar Rhythm 'n Shoes. Since then she has been an actor and choreographer on both stage and screen. In 2001 Haughton featured in TV mockumentary Love Mussel and co-starred in film Her Majesty, playing a kuia who befriends a young Pākehā girl. Two years later she won an NZ Film Award for her work on global hit Whale Rider, playing wife to Rawire Paratene's character: the "strong, wise and very tolerant" Nanny Flowers.

I had to watch my movements to make sure they weren't too fast, or too slow. I didn't develop a stoop or a walk, but once the wig, the make-up and the costumes were on, it really developed from there. Vicky Haughton, on playing grandmother Nanny Flowers in Whale Rider