- New Zealand actress Anapela Polataivao was born in Samoa.
Polataivao began acting as a child at the age of eight. She was part of the Maidment Youth Theatre at the University of Auckland and in 2000 graduated from the New Zealand drama school Toi Whakaari with a Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting). With Goretti Chadwick, Polataivao created the comedy duo Pani and Pani. They also created and present the Maori Television show, Games of Bros.
Polataivao worked as acting tutor at PIPA (Pacific Institute of Performing Arts), and has directed plays in New Zealand and New York. She has since worked as an acting coach as well as an actress.
In theater she is a busy actor and director.
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- In 2019 she won the Contemporary Pacific Art Award at the Arts Pasifika Awards.[.
- After touring New Zealand in 2019, the play Wild Dogs Under My Skirt by Tusiata Avia and directed by Polataivao was presented by the SoHo Playhouse in New York off-Broadway in January 2020.
- For her role in Night Shift Polataivao won Best Actress at the 2013 24fps International Short Film Festival in Texas,and the StarNow Best Actor award at the 2012 New Zealand Show Me Shorts Film Festival.
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