Olivia Tennet

Olivia Tennet
Birth name	Olivia Tennet
Born	January 4, 1991 in Auckland, New Zealand
Notable Roles	Lilith in Maddigan's Quest Tuesday Warner in Shortland Street Doctor K in Power Rangers
Notable Episodes
Awards	Winner, Best Juvenile Performer, Nokia New Zealand Film and Television Awards (2000); Winner, Best Actress, New Zealand Drifting Clouds International Film Festival (2003)

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Olivia Tennet is an actress and dancer from Auckland, New Zealand. She is best known for her role as Tuesday Warner on the nightly medical soap opera Shortland Street, having appeared between 2007 and 2008.

Biography

Tennet made first TV appearance was in an anti-smacking commercial at age 7, followed by a guest appearance on "Xena: Warrior Princess" in the season 4 episode "If the Shoe Fits...". She played Princess Alesia, a little girl who ran away from home because she did not like her new stepmother. She later appeared in Peter Jackson's motion picture adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" as a Rohan girl named Freda who, along with her on-screen brother Éothain, escaped the invasion of Rohan by Saruman's Wild Men.

Tennet also appeared in two other major motion picture productions in New Zealand. She played the role of Nicole Mitchell in the movie "Kids World" starring Blake Foster, who played her older brother Ryan. She won an award for that role in the 2000 Nokia New Zealand Film and Television Awards for Best Juvenile Performer. She also had a minor role in the kids movie "Ozzie" starring Rachel Hunter and Rose McIver. Following this, she starred in a short film named "Watermark" as Megan, a girl who became trapped in the swamps. The movie earned four awards at the New Zealand Drifting Clouds Film Festival in 2003, including a personal one for Best Actress, and one for Best Short Film.

A few years later, Tennet earned the role of the flighty circus performer Lilith on "Maddigan's Quest,". Lilith was the daughter of Yves, one of the leading members of Maddigan's Fantasia. While in secondary school, she gained the role of Tuesday Warner, for the fifteenth anniversary season of "Shortland Street", who (last seen as baby), returned to the soap's fictional suburb of Ferndale, after many years, now a teenager, along with her father, Guy Warner.

Following her graduation from Auckland's Epsom Girls' Grammar School in 2008, Tennet gained the role of teen genius Dr. K from "Power Rangers RPM", the show's seventeenth season. Dr. K serves as the team's mentor and technical assistant. Her focus episodes reveal her past as part of the Alphabet Soup think tank, and the decisions she made which led to the events of that season. While on RPM, she reunited with her former "Maddigan's Quest" co-stars, Rose McIver and Milo Cawthorne.

Currently, Tennet has been participating in various plays and shows throughout New Zealand. Her last major show was as part of the TelstraClear Season of "Stepping Out" as part of the Auckland Theatre Company. She played the role of Lynne, a nurse who takes tap-dancing lessons. In late July 2011 she appeared as Emilia in the Peach Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's Othello, and as Dorothy in September as part of that company's production of The Wizard of Oz.

Along with her stage work, Tennet made a guest appearance on an episode of The Almighty Johnsons as Delphine Hansen and appeared in the miniseries Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud.

In addition to her acting talents, Tennet is also a highly talented dancer, having earned various awards for her jazz and tap performances in New Zealand.

Roles

Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
Shortland Street	Tuesday Warner	2007–2008
Maddigan's Quest	Lilith	2006	1
Power Rangers	Dr. K	2009		17

Guest Starring Roles

Series	Role	Episode	Airdate
Xena: Warrior Princess	Princess Alesia	4x12 - If the Shoe Fits...	January 25, 1999
The Almighty Johnsons	Delphine Hansen	1x06 - Goddesses, Axl, Come in All Forms	March 14, 2011
Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud	Julie Theilman	1x02 - Trains 'n' Boats 'n' Planes	August 24, 2011
Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud	Julie Theilman	1x03 - All at Sea	August 31, 2011
Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud	Julie Theilman	1x05 - Dominos	September 14, 2011
My Life Is Murder	Cat	3x06 - Bride to Bee	October 10, 2022

Awards and Accolades

• Winner, Best Juvenile Performer, Nokia New Zealand Film & Television Awards, 2000
• Winner, Best Actress, New Zealand Drifting Clouds Film Festival, 2003

Trivia

• Tennet is currently in a relationship with RPM co-star Milo Cawthorne.
• Her favorite food is broccoli. She also has a phobia of anything berries.
• Has two older siblings: Anton Tennet, an actor, and Emma Tennet, a dancer.