Olivia Tennet

Olivia Tennet
Tennet posing in front of a statue of Hercules at one of the Capitoline Museums.
Born	(1991-01-04) 4 January 1991 Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present
Spouse(s)	Milo Cawthorne (m. 2013)

Olivia Tennet (born 4 January 1991)^[1] is a New Zealand actress and dancer. She has been active as an actress since 1999 and is mostly known for her role as Tuesday Warner on the New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street.

Career

Tennet began taking dance lessons at four years old. She says that she followed her older sister into dance and eventually stumbled into acting.^[2] She made her first major television appearance in the fourth season of Xena: Warrior Princess as the runaway Princess Alesia in the episode "If The Shoe Fits...".

Eventually, Tennet made her way into films. She went on to win the "Best Juvenile Performer" award at the Nokia New Zealand Film and TV Awards in 2000, for her role as Nicole Mitchell in Kids World. She also appeared in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Freda, a young girl of Rohan. She then won "Best Actress" at the Drifting Clouds Short Film Festival for her outstanding performance in the short film Watermark, beating the other adult nominees.^[3] The film won "Best Film" at the same awards.

Following this, Tennet became part of the core cast for Maddigan's Quest (2006) as the bratty circus performer Lilith. She would then gain her biggest television role to date as Tuesday Warner on Shortland Street, becoming part of the core cast for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. After her time on that show ended, she portrayed the role of teenage genius Dr. K on Power Rangers RPM, the seventeenth season of the Power Rangers series which premiered in March 2009.

Around this time, Tennet competed in the "Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition" with classmate Phoebe Mason (Epsom Girls Grammar School Drama Leader 2008) and did quite well, winning four of fifteen awards. The 5 minute performance included various scenes from Macbeth. Tennet and Mason won a trip to the Globe Theatre in London, July 2009.

Since her appearance on Power Rangers RPM, Tennet has participated in various television shows and theatrical productions in New Zealand. She played the role of nurse Lynne in an Auckland Theatre Company production of Stepping Out in June 2010, followed by the role of the Siren Queen for the Wet Hot Beauties' water ballet show titled Sirens for the Auckland Fringe Festival in February 2011. She also helped choreograph the show.^[4]

Later on, Tennet made a television appearance in an episode of The Almighty Johnsons as Delphine in March 2011. She also took the stage as Emilia in Peach Theatre Company's production of Othello in July 2011. She then took on the role of Dorothy in a major theatrical production of The Wizard of Oz based on the 1987 musical produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Civic Theatre in September 2011, earning positive reviews for her portrayal of the character.^[5]

Before leaving for the United States, her latest television appearance has been on the miniseries Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud as Julie Theilman, a courier working for Terry Clark of the Mr. Asia drug syndicate.

After wrapping up on The Wizard of Oz, Tennet moved to the United States to film a low-budget independent feature film titled Blood Punch which also featured many of her co-stars from Power Rangers RPM. The film premiered at the 20th Austin Film Festival in late October 2013 and won an Audience Award under the Dark Matters Category. She later appeared in the online thriller The Swarming produced by Fourth Wall Studios, along with the student-produced independent short film Home.

Tennet's latest project has been as the narrator for the audiobook version of Megan McCafferty's teen novel Jessica Darling's It List: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Popularity, Prettiness & Perfection.

Personal life

Along with her older sister Emma, Tennet also has an older brother named Anton who is also an actor based in Melbourne, Australia. As of June 6, 2013, she is married to fellow New Zealand actor Milo Cawthorne, with whom she has worked with several times in the past, most notably on Power Rangers RPM. They have been living in Los Angeles, California since late 2011.^[6]

Filmography

References

External links

• Olivia Tennet at the Internet Movie Database
• Olivia Tennet - Karen Kay Management
• YouTube Channel - OliviaTennet