Awhimai Fraser

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Hair Brown - Dark
Eyes Blue
Height 175cm
Location New Zealand - Auckland
Notes

Photographs by Dean O’Gorman

Notes

Photographs by Dean O’Gorman

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Acting

Skills

Composer, Dancer, Full Licence, Mezzo Soprano, Netball, Piano, Presenter, Singer, Soprano, Swimming, Yoga

Acting Experience

Feature Film

2024Moana 2, 'Matangi (Voice)'

Disney Dir: David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand & Dana Ledoux Miller

Television

22-26Toi Time! Season I - V, 'Maia (core cast)'

Rogue Productions Limited Dir: Various
17-21Ahikaroa: season I - IV, 'Chantelle (core cast)'

Kura Productions, Maori Television Dir: Various
2018Shortland Street, 'Becky Burrows'

South Pacific Pictures Dir: Various

Theatre

2015The Beautiful Ones, 'Hana'

Circa Theatre Dir: Hone Kouka

Television Commercials

2023Kete Kai / Bargain Box, 'Presenter'

ATA Limited Dir: Sonny Ngatai
2023My Food Bag - Bargain Box, 'Presenter'

NZ

Voice Work

2026Baddies, 'DJ Julie'

Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions Dir: Johnny Barker
2026This Is Home, 'Honey'

787 Media
2026Happiness Season II, 'Vocalist'

Greenstone TV Dir: Various
2025Buzz the Cuzz S2, 'Pungawerewere/ Spider'

TVNZ+
2025Tangata Pai, 'Hinewai / Vocalist (Beautiful Dreamer)'

TV3
2024Moana 2 (Te Reo Maori), 'Matangi'

Disney/Matewa Media Dir: David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand & Dana Ledoux Miller
20-26 The Lullaby Project

NZ Opera & Carnegie Hall
2024Encanto (Te Reo Maori), 'Dolores'

Disney/Matewa Media
2022Frozen (Te Reo Maori), 'Elsa'

Disney/Matewa Media
2022Good Grief (web series), 'Finale Singer'

Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Dir: Kiel McNaughton
2021Vegas, 'Titles Vocalist '

TV2

Musical Theatre

2026& Juliet, 'Anne Hathaway'

G&T Productions National Tour Dir: Hamish Mouat
2017Into The Woods, 'Cinderella'

Fortune Theatre Dir: Jonathan Hendry
2016Edges

Rebel Theatre Dir: Jason Te Mete
2016Mary Poppins, 'Miss Lark/Ensemble'

The Court Theatre Dir: Stephen Robertson & Ross Gumbley
2015The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 'Edwin Drood/Dick Datchery/Alice Nutting'

Circa Theatre Dir: Lyndee-Jane Rutherford
2014Red Riding Hood, 'Red Riding Hood'

Circa Theatre Dir: Susan Wilson
2014Grease, 'Sandy'

Wellington Musical Theatre Dir: Lyndee-Jane Rutherford
2013Jane Eyre, 'Jane Eyre'

Whitireia New Zealand Dir: Alan Palmer
2012Hairspray, 'Lorraine'

Wellington Musical Theatre

Live Performance

2025Christmas Cheer, 'Vocalist'

with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra Dir: Terence Maskell
2025Get Lost (live at SiriusXM), 'Matangi'

with Emily Bear
2025Hans Zimmer - The Art of the Score, 'Soloist'

Auckland Philharmonia
2024Toi Time: Live Concert, 'Maia (core cast)'

Storytime with the NZSO Dir: Various
2017Songs for the Deaf , 'Solo Vocalist'

Stimmung Choir

Radio

2024Te Whatu Ora Smokefree

NZ

Workshop

2025Aho Shorts Development Lab, 'Actor'

Caravan Carpark Films
2025Te Puhi Actors Workshop, 'Actor'

Sweetshop Entertainment Dir: Cian Elyse White

Training

2023Te Aupikitanga ki te Reo Kairangi (Level 6)

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Dir: Lindsey Puaawai Kahi
2016The Rumaki Reo – Diploma in Oral Māori Fluency (Level 5)

Te Wānanga Takiura o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa
12-14 Bachelor of Applied Arts (Performing Arts)

Whitireia New Zealand

Voice

Voice Characteristics

Retail, Bubbly, Confident, Energetic, Friendly, Singer, Warm, Young Mum

Awhimai Fraser Massey Radio

Moana 2 - Matangi

'Get Lost' Song, Moana 2

Te Reo Example

Creator

Instagram @awhimai_fraser
Facebook Awhimai Fraser

Creator

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 Disney’s Moana 2 and features on the film’s original motion picture soundtrack, which received international recognition including nominations at the American Music Awards and Golden Globes.

A graduate of Whitireia Performing Arts, Awhimai has starred in musical theatre productions including & Juliet as Anne Hathaway (G&T Productions, 2026 national tour), 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 with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Awhimai has performed live for over a decade both nationally and internationally. Her recent concert work includes Hans Zimmer Live with the NZSO and Christmas Cheer as a featured vocalist with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Terence Maskell.

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.

Her recent voice work also includes DJ Julie in Baddies (Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions) and Honey in This Is Home (787 Media).

On screen, she has appeared in Shortland Street and four seasons of Ahikāroa, and plays Māia as a core cast member across five seasons of the children’s series Toi Time! She also features as a vocalist in Season II of Greenstone TV’s Happiness.

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), TANGATA PAI (TV3) and Happiness.