Rose Matafeo Biography
Rose Matafeo is a comedian, actor, and television host from New Zealand. She was a writer and performer on the late-night comedy sketch show Funny Girls in New Zealand. Horndog received the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018.
How old is Rose Matafeo? – Age
She is 31 years old as of 25 February 2023. She was born in 1992 in Auckland, New Zealand. Her real name is Rose Catherine Lettitia Matafeo.
Rose Matafeo Family – Education
Matafeo grew raised in Auckland’s Ponsonby neighborhood and attended Auckland Girls’ Grammar School, where she was the head girl. She is the younger of two brothers. Her father is Samoan, while her mother is Scottish with Croatian ancestors. Her parents are Rastafarians who follow the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Rose Matafeo Husband
She traveled to the UK in 2015 and initially shared an apartment in Shepherd’s Bush with comic Nish Kumar before moving in with her then-boyfriend, comedian James Acaster. From 2014 to 2017, Matafeo was in a relationship with Acaster.
Rose Matafeo Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Rose Matafeo Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches.
Rose Matafeo Taskmaster
She appeared on the third season of Richard Osman’s House of Games and the ninth series of Taskmaster. Taskmaster is a British comedic panel game show produced and hosted by comedian and musician Alex Horne and Greg Davies. In the show, a group of five celebrities, mostly comedians, compete in a series of challenges, with Horne acting as umpire in each challenge and Davies, the eponymous “Taskmaster,” grading the work and assigning points depending on contestants’ performances.
Horne devised the concept for the show in 2010 for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; he later got a deal with Dave to adapt it for television, with the first episode showing in 2015. Channel 4 purchased the show after the ninth season in 2019.
Rose Matafeo Horndog
Matafeo received a £10,000 prize after winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her performance Horndog on August 25, 2018. She was the first person of color and New Zealander to get the prestigious award for a solo presentation. Only four other female solo stand-up comedians had gotten the award prior. On August 20, 2020, HBO Max will air Matafeo’s comedy special Horndog.
Rose Matafeo Starstruck
Starstruck, a six-part rom-com written and starring Matefeo, premiered on the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), and TVNZ (New Zealand) in April 2021. Matafeo and Alice Snedden co-wrote the script, and the cast included actor Nikesh Patel as the lead male and love interest Tom. The first series’ filming was delayed because to the COVID outbreak, but a second series was commissioned before the first season had even begun filming. Matafeo also played Jessie, a New Zealander who lives and works in London and has a one-night encounter with a stranger who turns out to be a movie star. A screwball comedy about a 20-something New Zealand lady who works as a babysitter and in a cinema in Hackney, London. She realizes she slept with a famous Hollywood actor during a one-night stand on New Year’s Eve.
Rose Matafeo Stand-Up
At the festival, she has had success with her solo stand-up comedy shows Life Lessons I’ve Learnt from the 1960s Based on Things I’ve Seen on Television (2011), Scout’s Honour (2012), and The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour (2013). After ten years of touring as a stand-up comedian, Matafeo stated in 2018 that she wants to “take a break from hour long comedy” and instead act, write, and direct more. Matafeo went on to direct five episodes of Golden Boy, a 2019 New Zealand TV comedy.
Rose Matafeo TV Shows
♦ 2023 – QI / QI XL
♦ 2023 – Pointless
♦ 2023 – The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off
♦ 2022 – Big Fat Quiz of the Year
♦ 2021–Present – Starstruck
♦ 2021 – Dead Pixels
♦ 2021 – Landscape Artist of the Year
♦ 2020 – Horndog – Self
♦ 2020 – Golden Boy
♦ 2020 – Richard Osman’s House of Games
♦ 2019 – Hypothetical
♦ 2019 – Taskmaster
♦ 2018–2019 – Squinters
♦ 2018 – Temp
