Nikki Si'ulepa

Bio

Nikki has worked as an actor, writer, director, screen tutor, and camera operator in the film and television industry since her 1995 debut role in Ian Mune's, Whole of the Moon where she won two Best Actress awards (Giffoni Film Festival, NZ Film & Television Awards), for her portrayal of 'Marty', a street-kid with cancer. Recently, Nikki is on screen opposite Elijah Wood in feature film, Bookworm and as lead supporting role 'Senior Constable Liliu Brown' in Warner Bros Discovery's 30% Te Reo Māori drama series, Tangata Pai.

Other recent screen credits include roles such as hardball 'Superintendent Dominique Stevens' in Dark City: The Cleaner T.V. series, town sheriff 'Constance' in dystopian T.V. series (seasons 1 & 2), Creamerie directed by Shadow in the Cloud's Roseanne Liang, and 'DSS Pilau' in Kiwi / Canadian thriller, The Sounds. Nikki has played a range of characters in Super City, Housebound, My Life is Murder, One Thousand Ropes, Filthy Rich, and stars in New Zealand's first lesbian comedy web series, Pot Luck (seasons 1 & 2), where she won Best Actress at the 2017 Rome Web Awards.

Nikki cameos as 'Hemi' in her directorial debut rom-com feature film, Same But Different: A True New Zealand Love Story which sat at the NZ box office for thirteen weeks.