Priyanka Xi

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Priyanka Xi (born July 28, 1991 ) is a New Zealand actress . She gained fame through her roles as Chelsea Regans in the New Zealand series The Killian Curse in 2006, as well as through her role as Kirstie MacMorrow in the US-New Zealand fantasy film My Friend, the Water Dragon (2007).

Life

The New Zealander, born in the summer of 1991, had her first notable appearance in 2002 in the ballet The Princess and the Pea , where she played the pea. In 2003 she starred in Irina's Russian Ballet School in the lead role of Clara in the ballet The Nutcracker . Xi finally had increased use in various productions in 2005, when she was used in the plays Dance Your Socks Off and Never the Twain and in the Shakespeare plays The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet . Her last three engagements were all during her high school years at Wellington High School . Furthermore, she was active in the theater sport of her high school acting group in 2005 and also had her first film appearances in the two short films A Place To Call Home by director Noor Razzak and Timothy from Echolocatia Films. In 2006, Priyanka Xi appeared in six of seven episodes in the New Zealand series The Killian Curse in the role of Chelsea Regans . That same year she was also cast in the US-New Zealand co-production Mein Freund, der Wasserdrache , where she finally starred in the supporting role of Kirstie MacMorrow . She was trained in a Scottish dialect for the film that takes place on the coast of Scotland during World War II ; She was also trained in film acting by the well-known actor and drama teacher Charlie Bleakley at the Wellington Performing Arts Center . While Jay Russell's My Friend, the Water Dragon celebrated its premiere in 2007, the young up-and-coming actress was already working on her next film project. In Peter Jackson's In My Heaven , she was involved in the previsualization work in the lead role of Susie Salmon , but was replaced in the actual film work by Saoirse Ronan , who had already been nominated for an Oscar and won numerous other film awards . In the years that followed, little is known about the work of the 166 cm tall actress; From 2013 she finally took part in The Actors' Program , a one-year acting training program at The Auckland Performing Arts Center , TAPAC for short . From February to March 2014 she played, among others, the Saunders in the play Fallen Angels of the Auckland Theater Company .

Priyanka Xi received further training for six years at the Capital E National Theater for Children in Wellington and for another five years at the Wellington Performing Arts Center mentioned above . She was trained in musical theater acting for a total of two years and was a choir singer herself for six years. In addition, she was trained as a ballet dancer for seven years, especially in the methods " Russian ballet " and " RAD ".

Filmography

Stage appearances

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Fallen Angels” program folder on the ATC homepage ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atc.co.nz
  2. ↑ The piece "Fallen Angels" on the ATC homepage ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on August 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atc.co.nz
personal data
SURNAME Xi, Priyanka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1991