Ngahuia Piripi

Ngahuia Piripi is a New Zealand television actress; she is a member of Te Rarawa tribe.[1] Piripi plays Esther Samuels on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.[2]

Biography

Piripi was born in Auckland to Poto Stephens-Dunn and Haami Piripi; she was raised by her mother. 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
  1. "Māori Language Week Ambassadors". Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. Mackenzie, Ellen. "Shortland Street's Ngahuia Piripi And Teone Kahu's Real Life Romance". Now To Love. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. "Shortland Street's Ngahuia Piripi: 'You've got to embrace who you are'". Stuff. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Ngahuia Piripi". www.tvnz.co.nz. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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