Vanessa Rare is a New Zealand film and television actress, screenwriter and director.
She has acted in a number of movies, as well as holding an extended role on the soap opera Shortland Street as Te Hana Hudson from 2001 to 2005.
[3] In the 1990s Rare studied literature and television and film studies at the University of Auckland and began to write and direct television series and short films.
[3][4] In 2003 Rare was nominated for Best Script, Single Episode of a Drama Series or Serial for Mataku at the New Zealand Television Awards.
In 2014 she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Z-Nail Gang at the New Zealand Film Awards.