Academy award nominee to guest star on Seeker!
Keisha Castle-Hughes to Guest Star on Legend of the Seeker
Academy Award nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) will guest star on an episode of the nationally syndicated series Legend of the Seeker, it was announced today. Castle-Hughes, who begins filming the episode in her native New Zealand this week, will portray a beautiful and powerful young woman claiming to be the Creator, the living embodiment of a God. When she demonstrates extraordinary power, unraveling the mystery of her true identity becomes a matter of life and death for Richard (Craig Horner), Kahlan (Bridget Regan) and Zedd (Bruce Spence). Combining elements of fantasy, adventure, magic, mystery and romance with state-of-the-art visual effects and a high level of action, Legend of the Seeker is an adaptation of internationally best-selling author Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth book series.
Castle-Hughes is best known for her role as Paikea “Pai” Apirana in the 2002 film Whale Rider for which she was nominated an Academy Award. At 13, she was the youngest female to be nominated in the “Best Actress” category. Since then, she has appeared in a number of films including The Nativity Story, in which she played the Virgin Mary; Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; Hey, it’s Ester Blueburger; and the New Zealand tele-movie Piece of my Heart.