Niki Caro

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1966-09-20 (59 years old)

Place of Birth

Wellington, New Zealand

Niki Caro

Biography

Niki Caro is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country. Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology.

Production

2003

Whale Rider

as Screenplay

2003

Whale Rider

as Director

2005

North Country

as Director

2009

2009

1998

Memory & Desire

as Director

2015

McFarland, USA

as Director

2023

The Mother

as Director

2017

1994

Sure to Rise

as Director

2020

Mulan

as Director

-

Callas

as Screenplay

2010

2009

1990

1994

Sure to Rise

as Writer

-

Beautiful Ruins

as Director

1998

Memory & Desire

as Screenplay

2010

Ruby Travel

as Director

-

Ruin

as Director

-

Ruin

as Producer

1990

Savage Rites: A South Sea Romance

as First Assistant Director

1990

1990

Savage Rites: A South Sea Romance

as Director of Photography

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