Nikki Si’ulepa is an award-winning New Zealand actor, writer, director and camera operator with a career spanning more than three decades across film, television, and web.
Nikki’s latest feature is Zachary Cotler’s psychological horror-thriller Exit to the Guillotine, starring Peyton List (Cobra Kai, School Spirits) and Gustaf Skarsgård (Vikings, Oppenheimer). The film, shot in Malta, has completed production and is currently in post-production, with Nikki among its international supporting cast.
Her recent screen credits include Tangata Pai for Warner Bros. Discovery NZ, in which she plays Constable Liliu Brown across six episodes, and Dark City: The Cleaner, playing hard-hitting Superintendent Dominique Stevens. She also appears opposite Elijah Wood in the feature film Bookworm.
Nikki’s extensive television and film credits include the dystopian series Creamerie, directed by Roseanne Liang (Murderbot, Shadow in the Cloud), in which she plays town sheriff Constance; the Kiwi-Canadian thriller The Sounds, as DSS Pilau; and Super City, My Life Is Murder, Housebound, One Thousand Ropes and Filthy Rich.
Her screen career began with her acclaimed 1995 debut in Ian Mune’s The Whole of the Moon, for which she won two Best Actress awards for her portrayal of Marty, a street kid with cancer. She later starred in Pot Luck, New Zealand’s first lesbian comedy web series, winning Best Actress at the 2017 Rome Web Awards for the first two seasons.