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James Rolleston is known for:

  • Boy
    It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.
  • The Breaker Upperers
    Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.
  • The Dark Horse
    One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.

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Biography

James Rolleston (born 8 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor known for the films Boy and The Dark Horse. Rolleston is an actor of Maori heritage from Opotiki, New Zealand, or Aotearoa, as the island nation is called in its indigenous language. First appearing in the Taika Waititi film, Boy (2010), Rolleston's debut performance rightly earned him accolades as a young actor to be watched in the future, which praise he backed up by returning outstanding performances in The Dark Horse (2014) and The Dead Lands (2014). In July 2016, he was in a life-changing car crash, sustaining serious injuries including brain trauma that has affected his speech and other characteristics, but from which he continues to make recovery with the support of family and friends.