Ngahuia Piripi
Ngahuia Piripi is a New Zealand television actress. Piripi plays Esther Samuels on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.[1]
Biography
[edit]Piripi was born in Auckland to Poto Stephens-Dunn and Haami Piripi; she was raised by her mother. She is a member of Te Rarawa tribe.[2] She attended a Kura Kaupapa Māori (a Māori-language immersion primary school) and is fluent in Te Reo Māori.[3]
She attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School and while still studying started working on Māori language television shows such as Whanau. After high school she started studying for a science degree then changed to a bachelor of Māori development at Auckland University of Technology. She continued to work on Maori language television, appearing in two seasons of the soap Korero Mai.[4]
Piripi has also appeared in the movie Mahana, produced by Lee Tamahori.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Mackenzie, Ellen. "Shortland Street's Ngahuia Piripi And Teone Kahu's Real Life Romance". Now To Love. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Māori Language Week Ambassadors". Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Shortland Street's Ngahuia Piripi: 'You've got to embrace who you are'". Stuff. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Ngahuia Piripi". www.tvnz.co.nz. Retrieved 7 March 2020.