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Karina Lombard is an actor, screenwriter and director. She is Italian, French, Native American. Born in Tahiti, the youngest of five children, and raised and educated in Spain, Switzerland and Peru. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German. She resides in Venice, California.
She is known for roles in such films as "Wide Sargasso Sea", "The Firm" with Tom Cruise, and "Legends of the Fall" opposite Brad Pitt, and television roles on such series as "The L Word", "NCIS", "CSI", "Rescue Me", and others. She did all her own stunts in Kull the Conqueror (1997).- Tarita Teriipaia is a former actress of French Polynesian and Chinese descent most famous for having been the third wife of actor Marlon Brando, whom she later divorced. For media and entertainment appearances and engagements she has usually been billed as Tarita.
Tarita played Maimiti opposite Marlon Brando in the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She became Brando's third wife in 1962. She is the mother of two of Brando's children, a son, Simon Teihotu, and a daughter, Tarita Cheyenne. They divorced in 1972. Only months after Marlon Brando's death in 2004, Tarita published her memoirs titled Marlon, My Love and My Torment.
One of their grandsons, Tuki Brando, is a prominent model. As of 2015, she is the only wife of Brando who is still alive, after Movita Castaneda and Anna Kashfi died on February 12 and August 16 of 2015, respectively. - Actress
- Producer
Vaitiare was born Eugenie Vaitiare Hirshon in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and was later known as Vaitiare Bandera, after she married producer Peter Bandera in 1994-97. She has an older brother and a younger half-brother. Her parents met during the filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando. Her father, Charles Heimata Hirshon, was born in Tahiti, of half American German-Jewish and half Tahitian-Maori descent, and started the movie theaters in the South Pacific. Her grandfather, Lewis Hirshon, a stockbroker, was from New York.
It is at her grandfather's house in Tahiti where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Tales of the South Pacific", James A. Michener, wrote "Return to Paradise". Her mother, Georgina Toomaru, came from a French, English, Polynesian / Cook Island (Royal Makea family) mix, was a young model and the first airline stewardess in Tahiti. It is through her mother, Vaitiare is able to trace her roots to the Royal House of Makea, located in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where her Grand Cousin, Tinomana Ariki Puaikura, was the "Queen of Queens". Vaitiare is a 17th generation Makea with 11 Documented King and Queen Ancestors in her genealogy.
Young Vaitiare left Tahiti with her mother and brother, at the age of 8. She graduated high school at the age of 16, and signed with a top modeling agency in Los Angeles and booked her first audition. A year after, at the age of 17, she auditioned for the internationally singer, Julio Iglesias' Christmas Special music video, filmed in her homeland.
She was offered the lead female role in the remake of The Bounty, starring a young Mel Gibson, and turned it down. In her early 20's, she starred in her first comedy film in Spain, Tahiti's Girl, and then decided to study acting, back in Los Angeles, with renown acting coach, Larry Moss. She hosted an award-winning 13 episodes documentary, "Tahiti and her Island", for TVE- Spain.
She appeared in several TV ads and was named Ambassador of Good Will for a Disabled Childrens Charity in South America. Vaitiare was the Hispanic spokesperson for Miller Beer, from 1993 through to 1995. She has also appeared in ads for Cox Communications, Sears, J.C. Penney, Toyota, Coors Dry, Caroche Jeans-Spain and Honda-Tahiti. She starred in the Spanish-language novella, Agujetas de color de rosa, which was seen in 45 countries. She also made guest appearances on Married... with Children, Out of the Blue and Acapulco H.E.A.T.. She had a role in the movie, U.S. Marshals. Vaitiare's best-known role was on Stargate SG-1, where she guest-starred in several episodes as Daniel Jackson's wife, "Sha're".
It is on the set of the pilot episode of "Stargate SG-1", where she met the father of her child, Michael Shanks. They have a daughter, Tatiana Shanks, born in 1998. They remain good friends and share custody. Vaitiare has a son, Kenta Asars, born in 2005. Vaitiare resides in Los Angeles with her son Kenta.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
Born in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall's company branched out into making industrial films and TV commercials. They were hired to shoot location footage for several feature films, including's Disney's The Living Desert (1953). In the early 1960s, Hall was hired as a camera assistant on several features and worked his way up to camera operator. He received his first cinematographer credit in 1965. Hall won acclaim for his rich and complex compositions, especially for In Cold Blood (1967) and won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He won two more Oscars, for American Beauty (1999), in 2000, and Road to Perdition (2002).- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Sound Department
G.K. Bowes was born in Tahiti, French Polynesia. She is known for Street Fighter V (2016), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Alpha and Omega 4: The Legend of the Saw Toothed Cave (2014). She has been married to Bowe Kurowski since 31 March 2001.- Jocelyne LaGarde was a native Tahitian woman, who had a single acting role in the historical drama film "Hawaii" (1966). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
LaGarde was born in Tahiti,the largest island of the Windward group islands in French Polynesia. She was fluent in Tahitian and French, but never learned English.
The film "Hawaii" was based on a novel by James Albert Michener (1907-1997), and concerned the life of an American Calvinist missionary in Hawaii. While the Mirisch Company was seeking someone to play the role of character Queen Malama Kanakoa, LaGarde was discovered to fit perfectly the physical attributes of the character. She was hired for the role, despite not having any active experience.
LaGarde was given an acting coach, "who phonetically trained her to handle her character's dialogue." Her facial beauty and large frame gave her a commanding presence among the film's cast. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first "the first Indigenous person ever nominated for an Academy Award". The Award was instead won by rival actress Sandy Dennis (1937-1992). LaGarde won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Following her only acting role, LaGarde retired to civilian life in Papeete, Tahiti. She died there in 1979. She was about 55-years-old, and no cause of death was announced to the press. - Production Designer
- Art Department
- Art Director
Born and raised in French Polynesia from Normand upbringing. Took his degrees in Theatre Design and Biological Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. An extensive world traveler and multi media artist. Committing to the film industry since early 2005 - based in Santa fe and New York. Twice nominated for an Emmy in production design.- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bill Bambridge was born on 18 August 1892 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931). He was married to Alice Vaituatini Varney and Doris Hyacinthe Laidlaw. He died on 12 January 1950 in Papeete, Tahiti.- Actress
- Stunts
- Additional Crew
Vai Tiare was born in Tahiti, French Polynesia. She is known for You Got Served (2004), The Onion Movie (2008) and Turbo (2009).- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Aliocha was born in French Polynesia in 1984. Inspired by the film directors Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel and Andrei Tarkovsky, he studied filmmaking in Paris and New York City before directing his first short film "La conduite de la Raison" ("The guidance of Reason") which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors Fortnight 2011. Aliocha was later selected to be part of the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab and the Berlinale Talent Campus. He then wrote and directed the short film "Bake a Cake" (winner of the "Aprile" Award at the Milan Film Festival 2012) which marked the first collaboration with the actor Jean-Louis Coulloc'h ("Lady Chatterley") with whom he also shot his first feature film "A villa in Los Angeles" on the coast of Brittany, France.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Born in Tahiti, she became Miss Tahiti, then Miss France 1999. She was a French TV host before she started acting. Lead female in the cult comedy Les Gaous (2004), she won a casting competition to win a part opposite Kevin Kline in The Pink Panther (2005) for Warner Bros.- Charles Mauu was born in 1919 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is an actor, known for Pagan Love Song (1950), Hell Ship Mutiny (1957) and Moby Dick (1954).
- Additional Crew
Charles Hirshon was born on 7 July 1937 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is known for Tahiti's Girl (1990).- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Henri Hiro was born in 1944 in Moorea, French Polynesia. He was a director and writer, known for Marae (1982), Ariipaea Vahine (1978) and Le Château (1978). He died in 1990 in Huahine, French Polynesia.- Fabrice Santoro was born on 9 December 1972 in Tahiti, French Polynesia, France.
- Johnny Frisbee was born on 19 June 1932 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
- Napua was born in Tahiti, French Polynesia. He is known for My Island Family (1965).
- he was crowned European Surf Champion in 2006 before setting out on the Qualifying Series. He joined the Championship Pro @Tour in 2009 after securing his first of many wins on Oahu's North Shore in November of 2008 at the Reef Hawaiian Pro. Bourez feels right at home in powerful Pacific reef waves, and he drills that point home every winter in Hawaii. He won the Hawaiian Pro again in 2013 and finished runner-up twice at Sunset Beach (2011, 2013) before finally winning the Vans World Cup there in 2014. The Sunset win was a huge bonus considering he'd won two Championship Tour events that year (Margaret River and Rio) and finished the year ranked No. 5 on the Jeep Leaderboard. In 2016, Bourez became just the fourth surfer in history to win at three Hawaiian stops by taking the win at the Pipe Masters. Mark Richards, Gary Elkerton, and the late Andy Irons are the only other members of that club.
- Terri Rua was born on 23 June 1923 in French Polynesia. He was an actor, known for Forbidden Island (1959). He died in 1995 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.