Keisha Castle-Hughes is an actress who was born in New Zealand and she rose to fame when she played Paikea Pai Apirana with the film Whale Rider. This film was nominated for different awards and they include the Academy Award for the Best Actress and during this time, she was the youngest person who was nominated for the award in the Best Actress Category and for the Award of the Broadcast Film Critics Association award since she was the best Young actor/actress. From the time she started to play, she made appearances in different movies including Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith, Piece of My Heart and Hey, Hey, It’s Esther Blueburger. She played as Virgin Mary in the year 2006 in the film called The Nativity Story. In the year 2015, she joined the Game of Throne in its season 5 at HBO TV where she was playing like Obara Sand.
Keisha Castle-Hughes was born in the Western Australia in the area called DonnyBrook, her mother is a Maori called Desrae Hughes while the father is Anglo-Australian Father. Her parents did not marry and afterwards they separated. Her family moved to New Zealand when she was 18 months old. She got the citizenship in the year 2001 and she had four siblings. Keisha Castle-Hughes went to Waiuku Primary School, Penrose High School and also Rosehill College and they all were in Auckland.
Keisha Castle-Hughes started to play in the main role when she played in Whale Rider as Paikea Apirana or Pai. Since she had no experience in acting, she went from the classroom to the film set when the shoot started in New Zealand. She received many acclaims for her performance. Afterwards, she appeared in the music video of Cinnamon Girl and she did the shoot with the Vanity Fair Magazine afterwards. She was invited to study in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Keisha Castle-Hughes is an activist who campaigns for the Greenpeace and she was the part of the SignOn.org.nz climate campaign of the year 2009. At first, the Prime minister of New Zealand called John Key had to admonish her telling her to stick to the acting; however, in just a week later, she was called to discuss such issue over the tea.
Keisha Castle-Hughes has a boyfriend called Bradley Hull and they got a child together in 2006. Their child is a daughter called Felicity Amore Hull and she was born in 2007, just a month after the 17th birthday of Keisha. The couple broke up after staying together for over seven years.
In 2012, her new boyfriend Michael Graves was arrested and also charged to assault her when they were driving after attending the Oscar Party at Pullman Hotel in Auckland. However, these charges were dropped since there were inconsistent witness accounts. Afterwards, she started to date Jonathan Morrison. In six weeks, the two were engaged and the wedding was on Valentine’s Day of 2013. Keisha Castle-Hughes said that she suffers the Bipolar Disorder after her colleague Charlotte Dawson on Kiwi Television committed a suicide.
| Birth Date: | 24 Mar, 1990 |
| Age: | 30 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Film actor |
| Citizenship: | New Zealand |
| Birth Place: | Donnybrook |
| Education: | Rosehill College |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | New Zealand actress |
| Twitter Id: | YoItsKeisha |
| Net Worth 2021: | 300 thousand |
