Waihoroi Shortland the accidental actor
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Waihoroi Shortland (Ngati Hine) has had a long and varied career. As an actor he's starred in Rain of the Children and Boy, as well as New Zealand's first ever film entirely in te reo - The Maori Merchant of Venice. He appears in Te Po  at Auckland's Bruce Mason Centre on 30 and 31 July.
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