Keisha Castle-Hughes Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress who rose to prominence for playing Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the film Whale Rider. The film was nominated for many awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for which she was at the time the youngest person nominated in the Best Actress category and an award at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards for Best Young Actor/Actress, which she won in 2004.Since she made her film debut, Castle-Hughes has appeared in various films including Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger, Piece of My Heart and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She also played the main role of the Virgin Mary in the 2006 film The Nativity Story.
Rhys Castle-Hughes, Liam Castle-Hughes, Maddisyn Castle-Hughes, Quade Castle-Hughes, Rhys Castle-Hughes, Liam Castle-Hughes, Maddisyn Castle-Hughes, Quade Castle-Hughes
Awards
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Breakout Star - Female, Academy Award for Best Actress, Screen Actors Guild ...
Movies
Whale Rider, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Nativity Story, Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger, A Heavenly Vintage, Vampire, Red Dog, Rewind, The Stolen, Queen Of Carthage, Whale Rider, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Nativity Story, Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueb...
TV Shows
Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones
Star Sign
Aries
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It hurt at the time because it's supposed to be a huge celebration. I was supposed to be able to go, 'Wow, I'm having a baby and this is amazing'. I felt like that I had to hide. I felt like it was bad for me to be happy about it. I felt scared in my own home and it was horrible. I should be entitled to walk around my front yard without worrying that these people are watching me.
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When I found out this was going to be the last Star Wars film that was ever going to be made, I felt pretty privileged to be in it.
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[on being interviewed during Oscar time] "For four weeks straight I didn't know what I was doing. It was like I had this little tape in my head and I'd sit there and they all would ask the exact same thing and I'd hit play and I'd be like, 'Blah blah ... ' in this monotone and they'd be like, 'Are you OK, dear?"'
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[on roles she's been offered since Whale Rider] "They're all really sexual roles or they all think that I'm still 11. They send me scripts and I say that I'm too young or not old enough and they're like, 'Well just come in and see us.' And so I go in and they're like, 'Oh, you've got tall and you've got hips and you've got boobs.' And I'm like, 'Yeah. That's what happens.'
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Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
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[on her role in Star Wars III] "I was on for 10 seconds and if you see me you're lucky."
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[on her Whale Rider character] "I think we're both strong willed and independent, and Pai has a great unique quality about her. She's an 11-year-old girl who's confident about who she is and knows exactly who she is. Not many 11-year-old girls are like that. She's a great role model for young girls. I think I'm like that too."
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I'd always wanted to act but it wasn't just that, it was because all the ladies wore pretty dresses.
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[on whether she wants to be an actor when she's older] "I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school."
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[on Whale Rider] "Watching that film made me proud to be a New Zealander."
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[on being asked if acting what how she expected it to be] "Definitely not what I expected it to be. All I ever saw were famous people getting what they wanted when they wanted it and I was shocked at the fact that I actually had to work."
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I keep having to pinch myself to make sure I'm actually awake. The Oscars are so big -- they're huge ... I'm totally humbled and ecstatic. No words are enough to explain ... it's like, wow. It's absolutely incredible. - after finding out about her Academy Award nomination
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Fact
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Has a life-long fear of dangerous birds, which she openly expressed in her Intrepid Journeys appearance to Tanzania, during the time she encountered several birds.
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Was pregnant at 16 during the filming of The Nativity Story (2006), meaning that while playing history's most famous teenage mother, she herself was becoming a teenage mother.
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Currently sailing on the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza in the Cook Islands talking to people about climate change. [June 2009]
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Attending school in Auckland, New Zealand. [January 2005]
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Is expecting her first child with her boyfriend of 3 years, 19-year-old Bradley Hull. [October 2006]
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Announced her engagement to DJ Jonathan Morrison following a whirlwind 6-week romance (2 September 2012).
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Began attending AA meetings in 2009, having battled alcoholism since her early teens.
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Returned to work 10 months after giving birth to her daughter Felicity-Amore in order to begin filming A Heavenly Vintage (2009).
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 17, a daughter named Felicity-Amore Castle-Hughes on April 25, 2007. Child's father is her ex-boyfriend, Bradley Hull.
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Shares the role of Mary, Jesus' mother, with Pernilla August. She and August have also both appeared in the Star Wars prequels.
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One of her biggest challenges in making Whale Rider (2002) was having to go barefoot all the time.
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She often used to compete in and win speech competitions at school.
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Her younger brother Rhys Castle-Hughes has followed in his sisters footsteps; he is a talented young actor who is appearing in a New Zealand series called The Lost Children (2006) and has also appeared in a NZ Short Film.
Originally it was thought she was born in New Zealand as she was part Maori and became famous after a New Zealand film. It wasn't until her Oscar nomination that her Australian father revealed that she had in fact been born in Australia.
Is a fan of Johnny Depp; was able to meet him at the 76th Academy Awards when they were both nominees.
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Has 3 younger brothers, Rhys (born February 21, 1992), Liam (born 1996), and Quade (born July 2006), and a little sister Maddisyn (born 2001).
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Her parents, Tim Castle and Desrae Hughes, met in Australia, but were never married. They had 3 children together, during their 9 year relationship.
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Moved to New Zealand from Australia when she was 4 years old. (Her father is Australian and her mother is New Zealand Maori.).
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In 2004, at 13 she became the youngest actress ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award.
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During an interview with Jay Leno, she confessed she didn't know how to swim when she was cast in Whale Rider (2002).
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Discovered by the same agent who discovered Anna Paquin.
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She was a fortunate discovery for Whale Rider (2002). The casting director and casting assistant went to her primary school in Mt Wellington, New Zealand and went through a few hundred children to choose their Paikea. They found her, only because she was playing up and being smart to them: she stood out.
$3 Million
