Rachel House

Rachel House

Born: October 20, 1971
in Auckland, New Zealand
Rachel Jessica Te Ao Maarama House ONZM is a New Zealand actress and director. She is best known for her roles in the films Whale Rider (2002), Boy (2010), White Lies (2013), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Moana (2016), and Soul (2020). She is a series regular on TV in the 2022 reboot of Heartbreak High as Principal Stacy "Woodsy" Woods and is a recurring character in the New Zealand Dark comedy-drama Creamerie as Doc Harvey. She is also a regular fixture of New Zealand theatre.

Movies for Rachel House...

The Moon Is Upside Down
Title: The Moon Is Upside Down
Character: Tuffy
Released: May 2, 2024
Type: Movie
Loren Taylor's directorial debut, “The Moon is Upside Down”, is an uproarious and cleverly dark-humoured rollercoaster. Against the backdrop of New Zealand's stunning countryside and gritty urban suburbs, three characters grapple with an insatiable yearning for connection.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Character: Hampton
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
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Next Goal Wins
Title: Next Goal Wins
Character: Ruth
Released: November 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Dutch coach Thomas Rongen attempts the nearly impossible task of turning the American Samoa soccer team from perennial losers into winners.
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Title: Bay of Fires
Character: Airini
Released: July 16, 2023
Type: TV
Stella is unexpectedly dropped into a small community with her children. It is the kind of place that's rife with simmering feuds, crime and sometimes, murder.
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Tales From The Apocalypse
Title: Tales From The Apocalypse
Character: System (voice)
Released: April 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A collection of sci-fi short films connected by an Armageddon theme, including an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.
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The Portable Door
Title: The Portable Door
Character: Professor Nienke Van Spee
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate strategy to ancient magical practices.
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Title: Kiff
Character: Mary Buns (voice)
Released: March 10, 2023
Type: TV
This series follows Kiff, an optimistic squirrel whose best intentions often lead to complete chaos, and her best friend Barry, a sweet and mellow bunny. Set in the bustling mountains, where animals and magical creatures live together in harmony, the series features the duo, who take the town by storm with their endless adventures and zest for life.
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Millie Lies Low
Title: Millie Lies Low
Character: Marlene
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A panic attack causes Millie to miss her flight to New York. Everyone thinks she’s made it though, thanks to her fake Instagram posts from the “Big Apple”. A tragicomic hunt for a new ticket ensues, as she attempts to beat the clock, her fears and the truth.
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Title: Heartbreak High
Character: Woodsy
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: TV
A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends - outsiders Quinni and Darren - Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.
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Title: Pinecone & Pony
Character: Gladys (voice)
Released: April 8, 2022
Type: TV
Kate Beaton’s beloved book comes to life in this animated series. As a warrior in training, Pinecone fears no challenge. Thankfully, Pony always makes sure Pinecone never gets in over her head. Together they learn life can be a fun-filled adventure.
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Title: Our Flag Means Death
Character: Mary Read
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: TV
After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard. Stede and crew attempt to get their ship together and survive life on the high seas.
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Back to the Outback
Title: Back to the Outback
Character: Jacinta (voice)
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.
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Title: Cowboy Bebop
Character: Mao
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: TV
Long on style and perpetually short on cash, bounty hunters Spike, Jet and Faye trawl the solar system looking for jobs. But can they outrun Spike's past?
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Rhys Darby: Mystic Time Bird
Title: Rhys Darby: Mystic Time Bird
Character: Voice of The Shaman
Released: November 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Kiwi comic Rhys Darby brings silly wonder to the stage in his latest stand-up show. His unique brand of physical comedy combines obscure observations and sound effects as he takes you on a fantastical journey into the world of mysticism, past lives...and birds.
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Title: Foundation
Character: Tellem Bond
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: TV
Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
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Title: What If...?
Character: Topaz (voice)
Released: August 11, 2021
Type: TV
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
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Title: Creamerie
Character: Doc Harvey
Released: April 19, 2021
Type: TV
Creamerie is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a viral plague has wiped out 99% of men, and Earth has become a planet run by and for women. There’ll be plenty to laugh at when three Kiwi-Asian women running a dairy farm encounter – shock, horror – a man!
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Cousins
Title: Cousins
Character: Older Missy
Released: March 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.
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Penguin Bloom
Title: Penguin Bloom
Character: Gaye Hatfield
Released: January 21, 2021
Type: Movie
When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.
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Soul
Title: Soul
Character: Terry (voice)
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
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Baby Done
Title: Baby Done
Character: Principal Mullins
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Wannabe-adventurer Zoe freaks out when she falls pregnant to her long-term boyfriend Tim. As Tim embraces the prospect of fatherhood, Zoe attempts to rush through her dreams.
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Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt)
Title: Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt)
Character: Patty
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.
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Title: SIS
Character: Moana Thompson
Released: July 22, 2020
Type: TV
A group of Polynesian writers must create a new comedy show, but there's one issue - their Caucasian head writer is a problematic ally. From STI checks to body swaps, the girls master life one sketch at a time.
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Title: SIS
Character: Moana
Released: July 22, 2020
Type: TV
A group of Polynesian writers must create a new comedy show, but there's one issue - their Caucasian head writer is a problematic ally. From STI checks to body swaps, the girls master life one sketch at a time.
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Title: Stateless
Character: Harriet
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: TV
Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.
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Bellbird
Title: Bellbird
Character: Connie
Released: June 11, 2019
Type: Movie
In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.
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Title: Sherwood
Character: Tui
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: TV
All her life, teen-hacker Robin of Sherwood thought she was an orphan. But when a mysterious Gauntlet unlocks a secret that turns her world upside down, Robin joins forces with a group of renegades who teach her the true value of love, loyalty, and sacrifice. Through the flooded storm-lashed streets of 23rd century London, to the towering citadel of the floating Upper City, Robin and her new friends battle the elements and the odds to defeat the mad Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Team Darryl
Title: Team Darryl
Character: Topaz
Released: February 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Fresh off being unseated as the ruler of Sakaar, the Grandmaster makes his way to Earth to start a new life. It's been over a year since Thor left Australia and Darryl has been struggling to pay his rent. Now Darryl needs a new roommate to help make the monthly payments. Unfortunately for Darryl, the Grandmaster was the only one who answered Darryl's "Roommate Needed" ad and with no viable options, the Grandmaster moves in.
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Title: The New Legends of Monkey
Character: Monica
Released: January 28, 2018
Type: TV
Follow a teenage girl and a trio of fallen gods on a perilous journey as they attempt to bring an end to a demonic reign of chaos and restore balance to their world. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable “Journey to the West.”
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Thor: Ragnarok
Title: Thor: Ragnarok
Character: Topaz
Released: October 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
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Moana
Title: Moana
Character: Gramma Tala (voice)
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: Movie
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 demigod to set things right.
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Cradle
Title: Cradle
Character: System (voice)
Released: July 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples the craft and seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to self-destruction Cradle’s computer, System, assumes control of the ship and refuses to perform the life saving medical procedure that her father desperately needs. Whilst trying to outwit System to save her dad, Eade discovers the shocking truth of her existence and must face her uncertain future armed with the knowledge that her life in space is not as it seems.
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Title: Wrecked
Character: Martha
Released: June 14, 2016
Type: TV
Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.
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Title: Wolf Creek
Character: Ruth
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: TV
An anthology series which centers on different characters being targeted by crazed serial killer Mick Taylor in the Australian outback.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Title: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Character: Paula Hall
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
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Title: Find Me a Māori Bride
Released: May 22, 2015
Type: TV
Find me a Māori Bride follows the comic misadventures of Tama Bradley, and his cousin George Alpert, a pair of successful, metrosexual Māori men, whose lives are turned upside down, when presented with a wero (challenge), by their late grandmother – find a Māori wife within 6 months, or lose out on inheriting the whānau farm, worth a whopping $47,000,000.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Vagrant Woman
Released: July 17, 2014
Type: Movie
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
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Title: Hope and Wire
Character: Joycie Waru
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: TV
Hope and Wire is a dramatized edition of what happened to a group of New Zealanders after the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes telling the "real story". They didn't need any extra drama, Christchurch survivors know that.
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White Lies
Title: White Lies
Character: Maraea
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.
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Title: The Blue Rose
Character: Tina
Released: February 4, 2013
Type: TV
When office temp Jane discovers that Rose, the PA she is replacing, died under mysterious circumstances, she joins forces with Rose's best friend Linda to get justice for Rose. Along the way, they find others who need their help, victims of fraud, theft and injustice, and soon Jane, Linda - and a team of unlikely co-workers - are taking on the corporate bullies, fighting for justice and using their unique powers for good.
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Title: Super City
Released: February 11, 2011
Type: TV
Super City was a New Zealand television comedy series starring Madeleine Sami. Season one was directed by Taika Waititi while season two was directed by Oscar Kightley.
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Boy
Title: Boy
Character: Aunty Gracey
Released: March 25, 2010
Type: Movie
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
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Perfect Creature
Title: Perfect Creature
Character: Forensic Woman
Released: August 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.
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Eagle vs Shark
Title: Eagle vs Shark
Character: Nancy
Released: July 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.
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Title: Maddigan's Quest
Released: January 26, 2006
Type: TV
Maddigan's Quest was a fantasy-based television series set in a post-apocalyptic future. It was based on an original concept by Margaret Mahy and was developed for television by Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang. The show originally screened on CBBC in the UK, and was also aired on TV3 in New Zealand, Family Room HD from Voom Networks HD and Nine Network in early 2006.
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Fracture
Title: Fracture
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.
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Whale Rider
Title: Whale Rider
Character: Shilo
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
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Title: Time Bandits
Character: Fianna
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Embark on a comedic, high-stakes journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an eleven-year-old history nerd. Together, they set out on a thrilling quest to save the boy's parents—and the world.