Robbie Magasiva

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Robbie Magasiva

Born	Robbie Magasiva 1972 New Zealand
Spouse(s)	Anna Magasiva

Robbie Magasiva (born in 1972) is a Samoan New Zealand actor who has starred in several films and as a member of the Naked Samoans comedy troupe. He has also appeared on television and theatre, and is currently co-presenter of New Zealand's Tagata Pasifika with famed athlete Beatrice Faumuina.

Robbie had his start on television during the 1990s, beginning with comedy. In 1999, he portrayed Mason Keeler in Jackson's Wharf. 2001 was an important year, as Robbie starred in his first major film Stickmen and joined the Naked Samoans. In 2002, he played Mauhur in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He returned to television in the show The Strip, continued his work with the Naked Samoans, and made a minor appearance in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, also starring his brother Pua. In 2006, Robbie co-starred in Sione's Wedding, a comedy film that achieved commercial success in New Zealand. In 2007 he co-starred in the horror film The Tattooist.

He has four brothers, Steve, Mike, twins Pua and Tanu, and one sister Trina. His younger brother Pua considers Robbie his inspiration to become an actor; Robbie signed him and twin Tanu to an acting agency when they were teens.

In a recent video on YouTube filmed in Auckland, a local band known as Reality Compound harassed Robbie Magasiva at a traffic light stop. Though Robbie was not seen well due to poor positioning of the hand-held camera, one member of the group recognized the actor and hollered at him, shouting, "I'm gonna get you back for that Robbie!! You threw me in that bin!!" Supposedly the one member screaming worked with Robbie in Sione's Wedding.^{[citation needed]}