She played Cordelia "Cody" Latimer in the New Zealand television comedy/drama series Go Girls (2009).
Turei made her stage debut at the age of nine when she played a workhouse boy in a local production of Oliver Twist.
At high school in Gisborne, she had distinctive achievements in oratory, music, drama and korero Māori.
[1] She was one of 18 students chosen from an applicant pool of 160 to attend Unitec School of Performing Arts, that same year travelling to London to study at The Globe with the New Zealand Young Shakespeare Company.
[1][2] Turei released an album, Empty Room in 2006, available for preview on Myspace.