Mia Blake

Acting

Mia Blake

Mia Blake is a Tongan–New Zealand actress renowned for her extensive body of work across film, screen, and theatre. Notably, she garnered multiple awards for her outstanding performance in the lead role of Director Toa Fraser's acclaimed feature "No.2" and the short film "This is Her." Her diverse film credits include "The Tattooist," "6 Days," "Without a Paddle" and "Stray." In her latest television venture, she graced the screen in TVNZ's series "After the Party" alongside Robyn Malcolm and Peter Mullan, following previous appearances in "One Lane Bridge" and "Shortland Street." Mia's theatrical contributions are equally remarkable, featuring lead roles in productions for The Silo Theatre, including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Angels in America," "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit," and most recently, "Upu Mai Whetu."

Acting credits

6 Days poster
6.0

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

6 Days

2017

Without a Paddle poster
5.6

Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.

Without a Paddle

2004

The Tattooist poster
5.1

American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.

The Tattooist

2007

No. 2 poster
6.5

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...

No. 2

2006

Stray poster
3.9

In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts. A young man is on parole after serving time for attempting to murder the man who killed his girlfriend in a hit and run. A woman is released from a psychiatric facility far from her homeland. These two damaged strangers cross paths in the mountains in winter and fall into a complex intimate relationship, putting to the test their capacity to trust and heal.

Stray

2018

Lion Rock poster
NR

On a beach road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car - she insists it was nothing, but as the night unfolds the boy begins to doubt her story.

Lion Rock

2025

Hopeless poster
6.5

For the last two years, Ben has watched his best friend Phil have a sickeningly fantastic relationship with Maryann, the woman Phil snatched from under his nose. When Phil says he’s moving to Australia, this ‘perfect’ relationship starts to fall apart. Maryann asks Ben to fix things up. Unfortunately the more time Ben spends with Maryann, the more he’s attracted to her.

Hopeless

2000

Behind the camera