Location: Auckland, New Zealand | Height: 164 cm | Hair Colour: Black | Eye Colour: Brown | Ethnicity: Mixed Ethnicity / Pacific Islander / Samoan
She / Her
Ma’aola Faasavala is a Samoan actor from Aotearoa New Zealand with credits across film, television and theatre. Her screen work includes Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max), Duckrockers (TVNZ) and Shortland Street. On stage, she’s performed with the award-winning Red Leap Theatre company in Moe Miti at Q Theatre, a production praised for its inventive storytelling and Pasifika heart.
A graduate of The Actors’ Program, Ma’aola brings cultural depth and emotional range to every role, with a natural ease that connects with audiences on screen and on stage.
| 2025 | Notes from a Fish | Role: Fisherman |
Lumin Productions - Director: Romy Hooper New Zealand International Film Festival - Producers: Eva Trebilco, Thomas Levesque & Romy Hooper |
| 2017 | Into The Rainbow | Role: Natasha |
Libertine Pictures - Director: Norman Stone Beijing Tianrun Media - Producers: Richard Fletcher & Iain Brown |
| 2023 | Duckrockers | Role: Katrina [recurring] |
South Pacific Pictures - Directors: Oscar Knightley & Sima Urale TVNZ - Producer: Tina Archibald |
| 2023 | I Got You | Role: Lulu |
Cadness Street Ltd - Director: Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa TAHI - Radio NZ - Producer: Abba-Rose Dinah Vaiaoga-Ioasa |
| 2023 | Our Flag Means Death - Season 2 | Role: Zheng’s Foreperson |
Emporium Productions Limited - Executive Producer: Taika Waititi HBO Max |
| 2023 | Shortland Street | Role: Lynn Esera |
South Pacific Pictures - Director: Grundy Television Productions - Producer: Oliver Driver |
| 2024 | The Necklace | Role: Angel |
Yeah Nah Productions - Director: Meg Robinson Prodicer: Diamond Langi |
| 2023 | Cuppa Tea | Role: Tessa | Director: Mhairi Johnstone |
| 2021 | The Seance | Role: Jade | Love, Blood & Rhetoric - Director: Peter Burger |
| 2018 | The Visit | Role: Claire | Director: Rituraj Sapkota |
| 2015 | The Engagement Party | Role: Sammy | Candlelit Pictures - Director: Katherine McRae |
| 2024 | Where's Mele | Role: Mele [lead] |
Director: Diamond Langi Māngere Arts Centre - Producer: Jason Manumea |
| 2023 | Moe Miti | Role: Ensemble |
Red Leap Theatre - Director: Katrina George Q Theatre - Producer: Grant Mouldey |
| 2022 | Maybe Something Different Will Happen | Role: Jocasta | The Actors Program - Director: Julia Croft |
| 2019 | Shortland Street | Role: Tara | Manakau Institute of Technology - Director: Amber Curreen |
| 2018 | Rosalina | Role: Dancer | Sau E Siva Creatives - Director: Troy Tu’ua |
| 2018 | The Protest | Role: Choir | BATS Theatre - Director: Various |
| 2017 | Mirror Mirror | Role: Choir | Mangere Arts Centre - Director: Alison Quigan & Troy Tu’ua |
| 2016 | Bad Girls | Role: Prisoner Kat |
Harlequin Theatre - Director: Susanne Dell Writer: Maureen Chadwick & Ann McManus |
| 2022 | Micheal Chekhov Technique | Tutor: Elena Stejko | The Actor's Studio |
| 2021 | Diploma in Achievement - Performing Arts | Tutors: Various | The Actors Program |
| 2019 | Acting Workshop | Tutor: Peter Feeney | The Actors Lab |
| 2019 | American Accent Challenge | Tutor: Sarah Valentine | The Actors Accent Coach |
| 2019 - 2020 | American Accent Training | Tutor: Jacque Drew | |
| 2018 - 2019 | Screen Acting & Audition Technique | Tutors: Kacie Stetson & Dawn Glover | Kacie Stetson Studio |
| 2016 | Diploma of Performing Arts | Tutors: Various | Manukau Institute of Technology |
| 2022 | City Rail Link Safety Video | Role: John's Wife |
VideoTaxi - Director:Rupert McKenzie Producer: Dan Arnold |
| Dance | Contemporary |
| Languages | Samoan |
| Sports | Billiards, Combat Fighting, Hiking, Hockey, Netball, Rowing, Volleyball, Wu Shu Kung Fu |
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