Olivia Tennet

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1. Behind the award

   Tennet received the "Best Actress" award at the Drifting Clouds Short Film Festival for her work in Watermark, where she beat the other adult nominees.

2. Behind the award

   Tennet and her classmate Phoebe Mason took part in the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition, where they earned four of the fifteen awards. Their five-minute Macbeth performance won them a July 2009 trip to London's Globe Theatre with the Young Shakespeare Company.

3. First role

   Tennet played Princess Alesia, a runaway, in the episode "If The Shoe Fits..." during the fourth season of Xena: Warrior Princess. It was her first major television appearance.

4. Behind the camera

   Tennet made a web series of her own dance videos, which she called Dancing in Small Spaces, and put it on YouTube and Vimeo.

5. Beyond film

   In late 2018 Tennet formed a 60's doo-wop trio called The Up-Doos with actors Esther Stephens and Aria Jones, performing at Auckland venues.

6. Behind the camera

   Tennet helped choreograph the Wet Hot Beauties' water ballet show Sirens for the Auckland Fringe Festival in February 2011, in which she played the Siren Queen.