Katie Wolfe

Katie Wolfe (born 1968) is New Zealand actor and film and stage director. She was in the New Zealand television series Marlin Bay in the 1990s, Shortland Street in the late 1990s and Mercy Peak for two years (2000 - 2001). Her screen directing work has won several awards including Redemption at the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival and This Is Her at the Prague International Short Film Festival. Her current creative work is writing and directing a stage play called The Haka Party Incident. Programmed by festivals through New Zealand across 2020 - 2023 Biography Katie Wolfe was born in New Plymouth in 1968, the daughter of Neil and Raewyn Wolfe and has three siblings. She is affiliated with the Taranaki iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama. In 1986 she enrolled at Victoria University and graduated with a BA in English. She graduated from New Zealand acting school Toi Whakaari in 1990. Career Wolfes first professional acting job was at Dunedin's Fortune Theatre, followed by several episodes of NHNZ's children's nature series Wild Track, as the presenter. Her first television role was in 1992 as Ginny Gannaway on the series Marlin Bay, a role which lasted three years, and her big screen debut was in The Last Tattoo (1994) directed by John Reid, in which she played the New Zealand missing girlfriend of an American World War II soldier .