Keisha Castle-Hughes

Keisha Castle-Hughes was born on March 24, 1990 in Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for Whale Rider (2002), The Nativity Story (2006) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).




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Keisha Castle-Hughes was born on March 24, 1990 in Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for Whale Rider (2002), The Nativity Story (2006) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).


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In 2004, at 13 she became the youngest actress ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award.During an interview with Jay Leno, she confessed she didn't know how to swim when she was cast in Whale Rider (2002).Has been learning Maori dances since she was 6.First Indigenous performer to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.Discovered by the same agent who discovered Anna Paquin.She is the first female born in the 1990s to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting (for Whale Rider... [Details Intro]