Temuera Morrison

Q: Has Temuera Morrison won any awards?

Temuera Morrison has received several awards including the Best Actor Award at the 1994 New Zealand Film and Television Awards for his role in 'Once Were Warriors'. He continues to be recognized for his contributions to the film industry.

Q: What was Temuera Morrison's first film?

Temuera Morrison's first film was 'Never Say Die', released in 1990. This film marked the beginning of his acting career, leading to numerous significant roles in New Zealand cinema.

Q: What are some of Temuera Morrison's most successful films?

Some of Temuera Morrison's most successful films include 'Once Were Warriors', 'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones', and 'Moana'. These films have garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success.

Q: What is known about Temuera Morrison's personal life?

Temuera Morrison keeps his personal life relatively private. He has two children and is known for his strong connection to his Māori heritage, which influences his work and public persona.

Q: What is Temuera Morrison's estimated net worth?

Temuera Morrison's estimated net worth is around $1 million. His wealth primarily comes from his extensive acting career in both film and television.

Q: What are some notable milestones in Temuera Morrison's filmography?

Notable milestones in Temuera Morrison's filmography include his breakthrough performance in 'Once Were Warriors', his roles in the 'Star Wars' franchise, and his recent portrayal in 'Chief of War' which highlights his enduring appeal in the industry.

Q: Is Temuera Morrison involved in any upcoming projects?

Yes, Temuera Morrison is set to star in the upcoming series 'Chief of War', which is highly anticipated and showcases his talent in a leading role once again.

Known for

Moana (2016)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2016 / Adventure, Animation / 107 min

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out...

The Book of Boba Fett (2021–)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

2021– / Action, Adventure / N/A

Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake...

Aquaman (2018)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 143 min

Once home to the most advanced civilization on Earth, Atlantis is now an underwater kingdom ruled by the power-hungry King Orm. With a vast...

Name

Temuera Morrison

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

26 December 1960, Rotorua, New Zealand

Spouses

None

Children

2, including a son named James

Parents

Hone Morrison, Rebecca Morrison

Estimated Net Worth

$1 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Dead Howling A werewolf hunts zombies after losing his family. He meets two humans seeking sanctuary and joins their quest, protecting them...	Uncle Tony	Not rated
2026	Movie The Bluff When her tranquil life on a remote island is shattered by the return of her vengeful former captain, a skilled...	Quartermaster Lee	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2026	Movie The Wrecking Crew Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal...	Governor Peter Mahoe	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2025	TV Chief of War With Hawaii's four kingdoms divided by war, the ferocious warrior Kaʻiana embarks on an epic mission to unite his people—as...	King Kahekili	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2024	TV Secret Level Adult animated series of original short stories which are set within the worlds of beloved video games. Each episode serves...	Old Salt (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2024	Movie Moana 2 After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana journeys alongside Maui and a new crew to the far...	Chief Tui (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2024	Movie In the Fire of War Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal battle in...	Rewi Maniapoto	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2023	Movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe....	Tom	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2023	TV Ahsoka Former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.	Captain / Commander Rex (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2023	TV Far North The (mostly) true story of how the most comically inept gang to ever join forces got half a billion dollars'...	Ed	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	Movie Sons of Summer To mark the anniversary of his father's death, Sean takes his friends on a road trip to his surfer dad's...	Frank	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2023	Movie The Flash When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which...	Thomas Curry	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	TV Kiwi & Cat: Mānawatia a Matariki It's a starry night but Kiwi and Cat can't sleep. Intrigued by the stars of Matariki, they embark on an...	Self (voice)	Not rated
2022	TV Obi-Wan Kenobi During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies...	Veteran Clone Trooper	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	TV Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Explore the behind-the-scenes story of the legendary bounty hunter’s return to the sands of Tatooine with mercenary Fennec Shand, who...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2021	TV The Book of Boba Fett Legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand must navigate the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands...	Boba Fett	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	Movie Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett A special celebrating the origins and legacy of Star Wars' legendary bounty hunter, Boba Fett.	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Woman in Blue An old woman in rest home suffering from dementia flashes back to her youth as a policewoman and her relationship...	Owen	Not rated
2020	Movie Occupation: Rainfall Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As...	Peter Bartlett	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2020	TV Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian Executive producer Jon Favreau invites the cast and crew of The Mandalorian to share an unprecedented look at the making...	Self - Boba Fett	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	TV The Mandalorian After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through...	Clone Troopers	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	TV The Mandalorian After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through...	Boba Fett	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	TV The Mandalorian After the fall of the Galactic Empire, lawlessness has spread throughout the galaxy. A lone gunfighter makes his way through...	Cloaked Figure	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	Movie The Brighton Miracle Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating anniversary, a 145-17 defeat by...	Eddie Jones	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	Movie Mosley The film tells the story of Mosley, a "thoriphant" who rebels against his life of servitude and embarks on a...	Warfield (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	Movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her...	Powell	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie Herbs: Songs of Freedom Five men from different islands throughout the South Pacific join forces in 1978 and find the words and the music...	Self (Archival Footage)	Not rated
2019	TV My Life Is Murder Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations...	Frankie Jones	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	Movie Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman discuss their characters Mera and Atlanna.	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2018	Movie Aquaman Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being...	Thomas Curry	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Occupation Town residents must band together after a devastating alien invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay...	Peter Bartlett	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2016	Movie Moana In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's...	Chief Tui (voice)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2016	Movie Mahana 1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial...	Grandfather Tamihana Mahana	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2016	Movie Hard Target 2 Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.	Madden	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	TV This Is Piki "This is Piki" is a Maori drama series produced by well known actor Cliff Curtis, also featuring Temuera Morrison, most...	Bill Mercer	Not rated
2016	Movie Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and...	Warden Mourdain	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2016	Movie Dawn Follow a tribe of Neanderthals as they struggle to survive and hold on to their way of life after coming...	Wikkanak	Not rated
2015	TV Tatau Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the...	Anaru Vaipiti	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2014	Movie Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey to...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie Mt. Zion Turei, a talented young musician, dreams of his band winning the audition to be the support act for Bob Marley’s...	Papa	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Missing Christmas A young Kiwi boy vows to get Santa Claus' attention and bring Christmas to his tiny, overlooked island.	Jack TePania (voice)	Not rated
2012	Movie Fresh Meat A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Māori family hostage and discovers too late that they are cannibals.	Hemi Crane	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2012	Movie The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption Since his triumphant rise to power in the original blockbuster "The Scorpion King", Mathayus' kingdom has fallen and he's lost...	Ramusan	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2011	Movie Green Lantern For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order....	Abin Sur	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie Tracker A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt in New Zealand for...	Kereama	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2009	Movie The Marine 2 Rebels seize control of the hotel where a Marine sniper and his wife are staying. Can he save the day?	Damo	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Couples Retreat Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on...	Briggs	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2009	Movie The Immortal Voyage of Captain Drake Sir Francis Drake goes on a quest to find the legendary Tree of Life, battling the Spanish Armada, sea monsters,...	Don Sandovate	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Rain of the Children In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when,...	Rua	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie River Queen In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides...	Te Kai Po	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2005	Movie Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises...	Commander Cody	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2004	Movie The Beautiful Country After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam...	Snakehead	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2004	Movie Blueberry U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans...	Runi	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2002	Movie From Puppets to Pixels: Digital Characters in 'Episode II' For Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), there were to be many more visual effects than...	Self / Jango Fett	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2002	TV Mataku Anthology of contemporary one-off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. In these tales of...	Self - Presenter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2002	Movie Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into...	Jango Fett / Clone Troopers	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2001	Movie Ihaka: Blunt Instrument His rough tactics in his native Auckland get Maori detective Tito Ihaka sent to Sydney while the scandal blows over....	Tito Ihaka	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2001	Movie Crooked Earth Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief...	Will Bastion	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Vertical Limit Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter...	Major Rasul	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2000	Movie From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter Set one hundred years ago, outlaw Johnny Madrid, after narrowly escaping death, goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous...	The Hangman	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1999	Movie What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks...	Jake Heke	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1998	Movie Six Days Seven Nights In the South Pacific, in Polynesia, on the island of Makatea, Quinn Harris, a taciturn pilot, leads a quiet life,...	Jager	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1997	Movie Speed 2: Cruise Control A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication...	Juliano	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1996	Movie Whipping Boy A female lawyer heads a government taskforce investigating a suspected paedophile racket in Sydney. Based on the novel by Gabrielle...	Carrigan	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1996	Movie Little White Lies The public facade and private life of an aspiring politician and his wife. This film reveals the little white lies...	Tim	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1996	Movie The Island of Dr. Moreau A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and...	Azazello	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1996	Movie Barb Wire A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in...	Axel Hood	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1994	Movie Once Were Warriors In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved....	Jake Heke	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1992	TV Shortland Street The lives and loves of the residents of Ferndale.	Hone Ropata	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1990	Movie The Grasscutter An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a...	Detective Sergeant Harris	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1988	Movie Never Say Die Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside Alf's...	Alf Winters	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1988	Movie The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy Dramatisation of the sinking of the Greenpeace ship 'The Rainbow Warrior' by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1985.	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1988	Movie Mauri Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival...	Young Cop	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1987	TV Adventurer Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to...	Maru	Not rated
1984	Movie Other Halves A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for...	Tony	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1972	Movie Terror in the Caves An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes	Unknown character	Not rated
1972	Movie Packed in the Boot An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes. 5 of 8: The escaped...	Rangi	Not rated
1972	Movie Escape and Capture An adventure story for children in eight parts, filmed on location in New Zealand. In the third episode, the escaped...	Rangi	Not rated
1972	Movie Escaped Convicts An adventure story for children in eight parts, filmed on location in New Zealand. In the second episode, the children...	Rangi	Not rated
1972	Movie The Mysterious Campers An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes. 1 of 8: Two mysterious...	Rangi	Not rated
1972	Movie Rangi's Catch Four children on a remote sheep station in New Zealand hear of the escape of two convicts, and realise that...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1972	Movie Caught at Sea An adventure story for children in eight parts, filmed on location in New Zealand. In the fourth episode, the escaped...	Unknown character	Not rated
1972	Movie Jet Boat An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Occupation Rainfall: Chapter 2 Continuing on from Occupation Rainfall, Earth's survivors must face the final onslaught of the Alien invaders and band together to...	Peter Bartlett	Not rated

The Bluff

2026 / TMDB 6.8

The Wrecking Crew

2026 / TMDB 7.1

Moana 2

2024 / TMDB 7.0

In the Fire of War

2024 / TMDB 5.2

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

2023 / TMDB 6.5

Sons of Summer

2023 / TMDB 6.3

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What are Temuera Morrison's career highlights?

Temuera Morrison's career highlights include his iconic roles in 'Once Were Warriors', 'Star Wars' as Jango and Boba Fett, and his portrayal of Chief Tui in 'Moana'. He has also appeared in various television series, showcasing his versatility.

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