Zoe Crane
Zoe is an emerging actor and filmmaker who recently graduated from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.
In her final year of high school, Zoe was awarded NZQA Top Scholar in New Zealand for Drama. The same year she directed a full-length production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and now works as a drama tutor, including at the Wellington College Shakespeare Festival.
Zoe starred in the short film A Girl Called Elvis which was selected at multiple international film festivals, and won the Audience Award and Best Short at the London International Film Festival. She last year released her vlog series Jessie & Mia on YouTube, which she wrote/directed/edited AND starred in, and in early 2026 completed filming on her first television series, Secrets at Red Rocks.
Zoe is a co-convenor of the Equity Youth Committee.
Hair Colour
Brown
Location
Auckland | Tāmaki Makaurau
Age Range
17 - 25
Ethnicity
New Zealand European
Height
171cm
Eye Colour
Brown
Full CV
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Television
2026 - Secrets at Red Rocks - Chloe - Libertine Pictures
Commercial
2024 - 2025 - Scorched Almonds - NZ only
Web-series
2024 - Jessie & Mia - Jessie (lead) - Director - Zoe Crane
Short Film
2024 - Our Party - Taylor - Director - Joshua Prenderville
2024 - Flat Cat - Heather - AUT
2024 - Glass Eyes - SAE Institute
2024 - Keepsake - Bus Stop Productions
2023 - Pay Back - Amber - Director - Mia Blake - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Blue Skies - Lucy - Director - Sol Maxwell - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Te Whare Pōuri - Edith - Director - Nova Moala-Knox - Toi Whakaari
2023 - Encounter - Hannah - Yoobee School of Design
2023 - Suck It Up - Louise - Director - Jade-Emily Kruger - Victoria University
2023 - Twenty Years Buried - Lead - Director - Finn Culver - Massey University
2022 - Life of the Party - Jordan - Director - Finn Culver - Bus Stop Productions
2022 - The Arcobaleno Home - Berry (voice) - Massey University
2021 - A Girl Called Elvis - Carol - Director - Lindsay Christopherson
2020 - Snare - Hailey - Massey University
2018 - Return to Fable Grove - Eden - Massey University
Theatre
2025 - The Dry House - Heather (lead) - Hekerua Bay Productions
2024 - U R BACK - Performer - Director - Jo Randerson
2023 - The Birthday Girl - Lisa/Young Woman - Director - Carrie Green - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Fairydust & Photographs - Margaret - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Mimic Another - Performer - Director - Ross McCormac - Toi Whakaari
2022 - In Blind Faith - Ava - Toi Whakaari
2022 - Orokohanga - Performer - Director - Nī Dekkers-Reihana - Toi Whakaari
2021 - Antigone - Ismene - Director - Heather Timms - Toi Whakaari
2020 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Moth - Wellington Summer Shakespeare dir. Shane Bosher -
2025 - The Working Actor Workshop with Laura Interval & Latham Gaines
2024 - Self Tape & Audition Masterclass with Les Chantery
2024 - Actors Lab Studio with Peter Feeney
2024 - Queer Story Workshop with Proud Voices on Screen
2023 - 2024 - Wellington Youth Choir
2024 - Inner Work with Brita McVeigh
2024 - Audition Technique Workshop with Jessica Grace Smith
2021 - 2023 - Bachelor of Performing Arts - Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School
2019 - 2020 - Wizz Theatre Academy - Musical Theatre
2018 - Rata Studios Miranda Harcourt's Professional Teen Acting -
2020 - NZQA Scholarship: Top Scholar in New Zealand for Drama
2019 - Trinity College London Grade 7 Performance Arts (Distinction) -
Accents - American, British, Australian
Singer - Pop, Musical Theatre
Songwriter
Climbing
Drawing
Showreel
