George Winiata Henare CNZM OBE (born 11 September 1945) is a New Zealand actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

Other films include Crooked Earth, Rapa Nui produced by Kevin Costner, The Silent One, The Legend of Johnny Lingo and Kawa (aka Nights in the Gardens of Spain), and The Rule of Jenny Pen.

[3] Henare has performed in numerous television dramas in New Zealand including The Park Terrace Murder (1976), the historical series Greenstone and Mercy Peak.

[4] Since March 2011, he has had a recurring guest role as Henare Ngatai, father of Roimata in the long-running soap opera Shortland Street.

To help launch the company Henare played the lead in their first two productions of Educating Rita by Willy Russell and the New Zealand premiere of Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher.