Katie Wolfe

Katie Wolfe (born 1968) is a New Zealand Māori actor as well as a film and stage director. She has appeared in seminal local television series such as Marlin Bay (1990s), Shortland Street (late 1990s), and Mercy Peak (2000 - 2001). Her screen directing work has won awards, including Redemption at the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival and This Is Her at the Prague International Short Film Festival. More recently she wrote and directed a stage play, The Haka Party Incident, that had its touring schedule affected by the Covid pandemic. Katie Wolfe, the daughter of Neil Wolfe and Raewyn Wolfe, was born in New Plymouth in 1968. She has three siblings and is affiliated with the Taranaki iwi Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama. After enrolling at Victoria University of Wellington in 1986, she graduated with a BA in English, and stayed in Wellington to study at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Acting School, graduating in 1990.