New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Hollywood’s calling! KIWI ANA’S STARRING ROLE

She’s just 27 years old, but Ana Scotney is already one of New Zealand’s top actors. She has starred in two of the nation’s biggest films of recent years, The Breaker Upperers and Cousins, as well as the country’s favourite soap opera. She’s even in a show with America’s queen of comedy, Melissa McCarthy.

But when the pandemic hit in 2020 and her livelihood suddenly slipped away, she knew she had no choice but to create

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