1. Rose Matafeo is a New Zealand comedian, actress and TV presenter.
27 Facts About Rose Matafeo
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Rose Matafeo was a writer and performer on the New Zealand late-night comedy sketch show Funny Girls.
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Rose Matafeo's parents are Rastafarians, who first met each other through their participation in the same Twelve Tribes of Israel denomination.
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Rose Matafeo's father John is a Samoan man and a first-generation immigrant to New Zealand; he joined the Polynesian Panthers movement when he was a teenager, and went on to work in an administrative role at the Rastafarian Church.
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Rose Matafeo's mother Diane is a Pakeha New Zealander of Scottish and Croatian heritage; she works as a teacher, and moved to Kampala, Uganda to teach English in the 2010s.
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At the age of 15, Rose Matafeo started doing stand-up comedy through the platform of the "Class Comedians" programme put on by the New Zealand Comedy Trust, and went on to win the "Nailed It on the Night" award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2007.
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Rose Matafeo has been a regular at the festival since.
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Since graduating from the "Class Comedians" programme, Rose Matafeo went on to win best newcomer at the 2010 New Zealand International Comedy Festival.
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Rose Matafeo became a host of the popular comedy festival show "Fanfiction Comedy" in 2012.
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Rose Matafeo has had success with her solo stand-up comedy shows at the festival: Life Lessons I've Learnt from the 60s Based on Things I've Seen on Television, Scout's Honour and The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour.
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Rose Matafeo's 2014 show at the festival was titled Pizza Party.
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Rose Matafeo was the first person of colour to win the prestigious award for a solo show, and the first New Zealander.
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Rose Matafeo was a TV presenter and host of U Live, which ran on the TVNZ U channel from 13 March 2011 until 31 August 2013, when the channel came to an end.
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Rose Matafeo co-created and starred in the New Zealand sketch comedy show Funny Girls for three seasons from 2015 until 2018.
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Rose Matafeo has been playing the role of Talia in the ABC comedy Squinters since 2018.
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Rose Matafeo appeared on Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier as an investigator into worrisome topics, and appeared with Richardson in 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, for Channel 4 TV in January 2020.
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Rose Matafeo was a contestant on series three of Richard Osman's House of Games and the ninth series of Taskmaster.
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Rose Matafeo went on to serve as director on five episodes of the 2019 New Zealand TV comedy Golden Boy.
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Rose Matafeo had her US television debut as a comedian on Conan O'Brien's talk show Conan on TBS on 9 May 2019.
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In 2019, Rose Matafeo appeared on James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe's show Hypothetical on Dave.
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Rose Matafeo was a guest on Deborah Frances-White's The Guilty Feminist podcast and on the RHLSTP podcast with Richard Herring.
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In 2019, Rose Matafeo directed five episodes in the first season of Golden Boy, a New Zealand sitcom for TV3.
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In July 2020, Rose Matafeo joined Guy Montgomery on the comedy show Tiny Tour of Aotearoa travelling across New Zealand.
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In March 2019, it was announced that Rose Matafeo had been cast as the lead in her first feature film, Baby Done, alongside co-star Matthew Lewis, known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter film series.
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In 2023, Rose Matafeo guest presented the British quiz show Pointless.
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One of Rose Matafeo's interests is mukbang videos, so in July 2018 she decided to make her own mukbang video using takeaways purchased from Double Happy Takeaways in Auckland.
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Rose Matafeo is a supporter of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and was scheduled to host their campaign launch for the 2020 general election, but was later asked to step down from the role.