Rena Owen

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"There are a million actors in the world who'd love the opportunity to be in Star Wars. It's knowing that you're part of history, part of the Star Wars phenomena, and the opportunity and the privilege of working with someone like George Lucas, to be able to sit there and watch how they work, watch them do their thing. That's what it's all about."

―Rena Owen^[src]

Rena Owen (born July 22, 1962) portrayed Nee Alavar in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. She also was the voice of Taun We in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and the video game Star Wars: Republic Commando.

Biography

Owen comes from a family of nine children. She was born to a Māori/Welsh father and a European mother.

Her role in Lee Tamahori's film Once Were Warriors earned Owen several awards, such as the award for Best Actress at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Festival Award at the San Diego International Film Festival and the Spirit Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1994, Owen appeared in the film Once Were Warriors as the wife of the character played by Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett & clone troopers). They played together again in the film's sequel What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?. Owen shared screen with Bai Ling (Bana Breemu) in the 2008 film A Beautiful Life. In 2009, she played alongside Keisha Castle-Hughes (Queen Apailana) in the TV movie Piece of My Heart. Castle-Hughes played the young version of Owen's character. In 2011, she appeared in the film Snitch along with Edward Asner (voice of Vrook Lamar in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel). One of Owen's castmates in the TV series Medivac was Graeme Blundell (Ruwee Naberrie).

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2014	The Dead Lands	Unknown role	Announced
2014	The Well	Claire	Announced
2012	The Straits	Kitty Montebello	TV series
2011	Snitch	Judge Irwin	a.k.a. Witness Insecurity
2011	Alyce	Danielle
2011	Shortland Street	Hine Ryan	TV series
2009/2011	East West 101	Mere Hahunga	TV series
2009	Spout	Oma	Short movie - Also Producer/Writer
2009	Fear Clinic	Brett's Mom	Web series
2009	Prison Break	SHU C.O.	TV series
2009	Veronika Decides to Die	Nurse Josephine
2009	Piece of My Heart	Kat	TV movie
2008	Amusement	Psychiatrist
2008	A Beautiful Life	Sam
2008	Ocean of Pearls	Anna Berisha
2008	Finding Red Cloud	Barfly
2006	The Horrible Flowers	Linda
2006	Leela	Mother	Short movie
2006	The Iron Man	Dolores
2005	Freezerburn	Lee
2005	Mee-Shee: The Water Giant	Crazy Norma
2005	The Crow: Wicked Prayer	Mary
2005	Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith	Nee Alavar
2005	Star Wars: Republic Commando	Taun We & RAS Ship Computer	Video game (voice)
2004	The Land Has Eyes	Warrior Woman	a.k.a. Pear ta ma 'on maf
2003	Nemesis Game	Emily Gray
2003	Pledge of Allegiance	Mac's Mom
2002	Angel	Dinza	TV series
2002	sIDney	Clarissa	Short movie
2002	Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones	Taun We	(voice)
2001	Soul Assassin	Karina
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Ticket Taker
2001	Gideon's Crossing	Tara the Surgeon	TV series
2000	Dark Knight	Rock Witch	TV series
2000	All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story	Soona Fualaau	TV movie
2000	Her Iliad	Lena
1999	What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?	Beth Heke
1999	I'll Make You Happy	Mickie
1999	9 Across	Unknown role	Short movie
1998	When Love Comes	Katie
1998	Dance Me to My Song	Rix
1996-1998	Medivac	Macy Fields	TV series
1996	G.P.	Hilary Harper	TV series
1995	High Tide	Cara Gibson	TV series
1995	The Call Up	Emily Broughton
1995	Savage Play	Takiora
1994	Once Were Warriors	Beth Heke
1994	Rapa Nui	Hitirenga
1994	Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk	Hinekaro	Short movie
1990/1991	Shark in the Park	Ngaire	TV series
1990	Betty's Bunch	Shirley Gardner	TV series