Niki Caro

Birthday: 1966-09-20
Birthplace: Wellington, New Zealand
Gender: Female

Niki Caro is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country. Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology.

Credits

Year Title
Beautiful Ruins
2023-05-04 The Mother
2020-09-04 Mulan
2017-03-24 The Zookeeper's Wife
2015-02-20 McFarland, USA
2010-09-15 42 One Dream Rush
2009-09-01 The Vintner's Luck
2005-02-12 North Country
2003-01-30 Whale Rider
2001-03-13 Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave
1998-01-01 Memory & Desire
1994-10-01 Sure to Rise
1990-01-01 Virgin, Whore, Saint