Keisha Castle-Hughes

Acting · Born 1990-03-24 in Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia

Biography

Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand film actress who rose to prominence at the age of eleven when playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the 2002 film Whale Rider. For her performance in the film, Castle-Hughes was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the youngest-ever nominee in the category at the time, and won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. Castle-Hughes has appeared in films such as Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008), the New Zealand tele-movie Piece Of My Heart (2009), and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). She played Mary in The Nativity Story in (2006), and appeared in Red Dog (2011) and Thank You for Your Service (2017), among several other films. She is well known for television…

Filmography

• Whale Rider as Paikea Apirana
• The Nativity Story as Mary
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Queen of Naboo
• Red Dog as Rosa
• The Vintner's Luck as Celeste
• Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger as Sunni
• Vampire as Jellyfish
• Rewind as Priya
• Queen of Carthage as Simi
• Thank You for Your Service as Alea

TV

• Game of Thrones as Obara Sand
• FBI: Most Wanted as Hana Gibson
• The Walking Dead as Joan
• FBI as Hana Gibson
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch as Emerie Karr (voice)
• Manhunt as Tabby
• The Oscars as Self
• Roadies as Donna Mancini
• On The Ropes as Jess O'Connor
• Legend of the Seeker as The Creator / Maia