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| - Tennet made her first television appearance on an anti-smacking commercial at age 7. Soon afterwards, she appeared on Xena: Warrior Princess as a little runaway princess named Alesia in one episode of the series' fourth season (1999). She later appeared in the movie Kids World as Nicole Mitchell, a role for which she won the Best Juvenile Performer Award at the 2000 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards for her role in the movie. Following this, Tennet had a minor part in the movie Ozzie, which featured RPM co-star Rose McIver (Summer Landsdown, Ranger Operator Series Yellow). She also had a leading role in the short film Watermark, which was shown in major film festivals such as the French Cannes Film Festival. The film received many awards, including a personal one for Best Actress, at the 2003 New Zealand Drifting Clouds Film Festival in Wellington. But she would gain her biggest international exposure playing a small part in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as a young Rohan girl named Freda. She can be seen fleeing a burning village on a horse along with her onscreen brother Éothain. Tennet returned to the small screen in a guest appearance on P. E. T. Detectives (2003), a show starring RPM co-star Milo Cawthorne (Ziggy Grover, Ranger Operator Series Green). A few years later, she would play the role of the circus performer Lilith in the post-apocalyptic children's fantasy Maddigan's Quest (2006), starring Rose McIver as the lead role of Garland. A year later, Tennet would gain her biggest television role prior to RPM as Tuesday Warner on the long-running nightly New Zealand medical drama Shortland Street (2007, 2008). Tennet then joined the cast of RPM (2009) as Doctor K. Tennet then appeared on the New Zealand comedy The Almighty Johnsons (2011) as Delphine. She also appeared later that year in the miniseries Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud as Julie Theilman, a real-life drug courier and heroin user.
- Tennet made her first television appearance on an anti-smacking commercial at age 7. Soon afterwards, she appeared on Xena: Warrior Princess as a little runaway princess named Alesia in one episode of the series' fourth season (1999). She later appeared in the movie Kids World as Nicole Mitchell, a role for which she won the Best Juvenile Performer Award at the 2000 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards for her role in the movie. Following this, Tennet had had a leading role in the short film Watermark, which competed in major film festivals such as the French Cannes Film Festival. The film received many awards, including a personal one for Best Actress, at the 2003 New Zealand Drifting Clouds Film Festival in Wellington. But she would gain her biggest international exposure playing a small part in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, as a young Rohan girl named Freda. She can be seen fleeing a burning village on a horse along with her onscreen brother Éothain. A few years later, Tennet would play the role of the circus performer Lilith in the Kiwi post-apocalyptic children's fantasy Maddigan's Quest (2006). A year later, she would gain her biggest television role yet on Shortland Street as Tuesday Warner for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Following her time on Shortland Street, Tennet played the role of the scientist Dr. K on the American children's television show Power Rangers RPM (2009). She later eppeared in the New Zealand comedy The Almighty Johnsons as Delphine (2011), and in Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud as Julie Theilman (2011).
- Olivia Tennet is a New Zealand actress and dancer who played the character Freda in the The Two Towers, the second film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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