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Temuera Morrison
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Temuera Derek Morrison (born December 26, 1960) is a New Zealand actor. Born in the town of Rotorua in the North Island of New Zealand, he is a Māori. He has become one of the country's most famous stars for his roles as the abusive Jake "the Muss" Heke in 1994's Once Were Warriors and as bounty hunter Jango Fett in the Star Wars series.
Morrison lives in New Zealand, and divides his time filming there and in Australia and the United States. He is the nephew of Māori entertainer Sir Howard Morrison. His secondary education took place at Wesley College, Auckland where he was Head Prefect in 1977.[citation needed]
Contents
- 1 Notable roles
- 2 Filmography
- 3 References
- 4 External links
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Notable roles
Trained in drama under the New Zealand Special Performing Arts Training Scheme, one of Morrison's earliest roles was in the 1988 film
Never Say Die, opposite
Lisa Eilbacher. He played Dr.
Hone Ropata on the television
soap opera Shortland Street from 1992 – 1995; he was immortalized when another character rebuked him with the line "You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata!"
In 1994 he received attention as the violent and abusive Māori husband Jake Heke in Once Were Warriors, a film adaptation of Alan Duff's novel of the same name. The role won him international acclaim, and he received the 1994 award for best male perfomance in a dramatic role from the New Zealand Film and TV Awards. He reprised the role in the sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, for which he received the Best Actor award from the New Zealand Film Awards. He has appeared in supporting roles in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) and The Beautiful Country (2004). In 2005, Morrison became the host of the talk show The Tem Show on New Zealand television.
Star Wars
In recent years, Morrison has received much popularity from his role as the bounty hunter Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002). Part of the film's plot involves an army of clones created with Jango's DNA; Morrison also provided acting and voice work for the soldiers. He reappeared as a number of clones in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the final film of the series, and rerecorded the lines of the character Boba Fett (Jango's son and another clone) in the 2004 DVD re-releases of the original Star Wars trilogy, replacing the voice of Jason Wingreen.
He has since provided the voices of Jango Fett and his clones in a number of
Star Wars video games, all produced by
LucasArts. He played the commando "
Boss" in
Star Wars: Republic Commando and voiced all the troopers in
Star Wars: Battlefront and
Star Wars: Battlefront II. He played Jango again in
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, which reveals the origins of Jango Fett, and played Boba Fett in the 2006 game
Star Wars: Empire at War.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
