| Sapeta Taito | |
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| Born | Sapeta Sokag‘aitu Taito 1986 Suva, Fiji |
Sapeta Sokag‘aitu Taito (born 1986) is a Fiji Islander actress. She played the lead role in Fiji's first feature film, The Land Has Eyes, in 2004.
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Born in Suva, Fiji, Taito moved to Rotuma at a young age. She studied at the Lelean Memorial School in Suva, and then studied Science at the University of the South Pacific,[1] majoring in biology and chemistry, with the aim of later studying medicine and becoming a surgeon.[2]
She auditioned successfully for the lead role, that of a young Rotuman woman, in the film The Land Has Eyes, despite never having seen a film before.[2][3][4] She attended the film’s world premiere at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, travelling outside Fiji for the first time to do so.[3]