Ana Scotney

Bio

Ana captured the world’s hearts in 2018 for her role as Sepa, in the hit feature film The Breaker Upperers by Jackie Van Beek & Madeleine Sami. The same year she played she-wolf, Sheena, in Wellington Paranormal the spin-off of What We Do in the Shadows from directors Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement.

Ana graduated from Toi Whakaari, New Zealand’s foremost drama school in 2016 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Acting. During her time at Toi, Scotney constructed and performed in two solo shows: Death of Nomad and Mighty Boy both toured nationally, in diverse contexts such as prisons and Marae.

Ana is of Māori (Tūhoe), German, Jewish and Irish decent and is a proficient speaker of Te Reo. She is confident in public speaking, guitar, piano, hip-hop and jazz dancing.

In 2017, Ana played multiple roles in The Auckland Theatre Company’s Peer Gynt [recycled]. Her recent theatre work includes Anne Washburn's Mr.Burns, a Post-Electric Play in its New Zealand debut with Silo Theatre Company (2018), The Contours of Heaven (2018), which she co-created and won “Best Theatre, “Best Performance (Theatre)”, “Basement Theatre Migration Award” and “Auckland Arts Festival Fringe Award” at Auckland Fringe, 2018. 

Ana is also a film maker herself, her first short film, Dance of Lonely Birds, created during her final year at Toi Whakaari, was shown at WINDA Indigenous Film Festival in Sydney, The Bali Indigenous Film Fesitval, and at Māoriland film festival.