Awhimai Fraser
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Acting
Skills
Acting Experience
Feature Film
Disney Dir: David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand & Dana Ledoux Miller
Television
Rogue Productions Limited Dir: Various
Kura Productions, Maori Television Dir: Various
South Pacific Pictures Dir: Various
Maori Television Dir: Various
Theatre
Storytime with the NZSO Dir: Various
Circa Theatre Dir: Hone Kouka
Circa Theatre Dir: Lyndee-Jane Rutherford
Circa Theatre Dir: Susan Wilson
Television Commercials
NZ
Voice Work
TV3
Disney/Matewa Media Dir: David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand & Dana Ledoux Miller
NZ Opera & Carnegie Hall
Disney/Matewa Media
Disney/Matewa Media
Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Dir: Kiel McNaughton
TV2
Musical Theatre
Fortune Theatre Dir: Jonathan Hendry
Rebel Theatre Dir: Jason Te Mete
The Court Theatre Dir: Stephen Robertson & Ross Gumbley
Wellington Musical Theatre Dir: Lyndee-Jane Rutherford
Whitireia New Zealand Dir: Alan Palmer
Wellington Musical Theatre
Live Performance
with Emily Bear
Auckland Philharmonia
NZ Opera & Carnegie Hal
Radio
NZ
Training
Sweetshop Entertainment Dir: Cian Elyse White
Voice
Voice Characteristics
Retail, Bubbly, Confident, Energetic, Friendly, Singer, Warm, Young MumCreator
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Biography
Awhimai Fraser is a singer, actor, songwriter and multidisciplinary creative from Aotearoa New Zealand, with whakapapa to Waikato, Ngāti Pūkenga, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Ngāti Kahungunu.
She plays Matangi in Moana 2, part of the film’s original motion picture soundtrack, which was nominated for both an American Music Award and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture.
A graduate of Whitireia Performing Arts, Awhimai has starred in musical theatre productions including Into The Woods as Cinderella (Fortune Theatre), Grease as Sandy (Wellington Musical Theatre), Mary Poppins as Miss Lark (The Court Theatre), Hairspray as Lorraine (Wellington Musical Theatre), and Edges with Rebel Theatre.
Her theatre work includes The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Edwin Drood / Dick Datchery / Alice Nutting (Circa Theatre), Red Riding Hood as Red Riding Hood (Circa Theatre), The Beautiful Ones as Hana (Circa Theatre), and Toi Time: Live Concert as Māia (core cast, NZSO).
She has performed live for over a decade both nationally and internationally, including recent shows with the NZSO (Hans Zimmer Live) and the upcoming Christmas Cheer 2025.
Awhimai lends her voice to the Reo Māori adaptations of Disney favourites – voicing Matangi in Moana 2 Reo Māori, Elsa in Frozen Reo Māori, and Dolores in Encanto Reo Māori.
On screen, she’s appeared in Shortland Street, four seasons of Ahikāroa, and plays Māia in four seasons (and counting) of the children’s series Toi Time!
Awhimai also lends her voice to radio and television campaigns, writes and performs original music, and features vocally on soundtracks for Good Grief (TVNZ), VEGAS (TV2) and TANGATA PAI (TV3).
