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Nancy Brunning was born on 1971 in Taupō, New Zealand, is a New Zealand actress, director, and writer (1971–2019). Discover Nancy Brunning's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Occupation Actor, director, writer
Age 48 years old
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Birthplace Taupō, New Zealand
Date of death 16 November, 2019
Died Place Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealander

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1990

Brunning attended Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School from 1990, graduating in 1991 with a Diploma in Acting.

She lived in Wellington for most of her life.

After graduating, she played many leading roles in theatre, film and television.

1992

In 1992, she won the award for Most Promising Female Actor at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards for the all Māori women production Nga Wahine.

She also became one of the most well known faces on New Zealand television in the role of Jaki Manu in the soap Shortland Street and other programmes.

Brunning also appeared on stage in major productions for the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, the biggest arts event in the country, in productions such as Hide ‘n’ Seek (1992) (NZ and Australian tour) and Waiora (1996) (NZ, Brighton Festival and Hawai'i tours) and Blue Smoke.

1994

In 1994, she appeared in the classic Nga Tangata Toa play written by Hone Kouka and directed by Colin McColl.

1995

Brunning directed theatre and stage dramas from 1995.

Her first production was Briar Grace-Smith's first full-length one woman show called Nga Pou Wahine.

1996

She also collaborated with Grace-Smith on a Taki Rua Theatre production in 1996 called Flat out Brown; directed Māori language play Te Ohaki a Nihe written by Selwyn Muru and devised and directed with Grace-Smith again on a touring show called Waitapu, also in 1996.

She directed Women Far Walking written by Māori writer Witi Ihimaera.

The play toured nationally and internationally to the UK.

She was also assistant director with Nathaniel Lees on Awhi Tapu by Albert Belz for the Auckland Festival.

She was assistant director for the play The Songmaker's Chair written by Albert Wendt and directed by Nathaniel Lees.

1998

She played the role of Belle in the UK-NZ co-production of Beauty and the Beast (1998).

A speaker of the indigenous Māori language, Brunning also worked as a theatre director, cultural advisor and script consultant.

1999

She won the best actress award at the New Zealand Film Awards for her lead role in the film What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999).

2000

In 2000, she won the Best Actress in Drama award at the New Zealand Television Awards for her lead role in the television series Nga Tohu.

She was the acting coach for the Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night directed by Taika Waititi.

According to friend and frequent collaborator Temuera Morrison, she "paved the way" for Māori actors in New Zealand.

Brunning grew up in Taupō, and was of Māori descent, from the tribes of Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāi Tūhoe.

2008

Brunning directed the short film Journey to Ihipa (2008) which screened at the New Zealand International Film Festivals and internationally, including the Vladivostok Film Festival (2009) and in New York.

The film starred veteran New Zealand actress Elizabeth McRae and Nathaniel Lees, and was shot in the Ngai Tuhoe Māori community of Ruatahuna in the central North Island of New Zealand.

2009

She received a best actress nomination at the 2009 Qantas Film & TV Awards for her role in the movie Strength of Water.

2013

Brunning and theatre maker and educator Tanea Heke formed a production company Hāpai Productions in 2013 with a vision to "produce mana enhancing Māori Theatre productions whilst upholding Māori Values."

2019

Nancy Brunning (1971 – 16 November 2019) was a New Zealand actress, director, and writer who won awards in film and television and made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts.

The Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival in Gisborne was where Brunning last creative work Witi's Wahine was premiered in 2019.

She wrote and directed this play as a tribute to the women characters in the novels of Witi Ihimaera.

It has since been performed in Auckland and is programmed in the Kia Mau Festival in 2021 Wellington.

Brunning died on 16 November 2019 at age 48, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.

She posthumously won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award the following day.

Friend and frequent collaborator Temuera Morrison paid tribute to her.

In a post on Facebook, New Zealand television and radio host Stacey Morrison wrote that Brunning was "Our māmā, our sister, our aunty, our friend, she has followed the call of her tīpuna. Nancy's passion was to bring unheard stories to the light. To remind our people that our voices are a powerful tool and aroha is the most important thing of all. And while she was loved by the world, she was loved even more by us. She was the person that bound our whānau together."

Following her death, there were calls for Pharmac, the national drug funding agency, to be reformed.