Up-and-coming star Paipera Hayes says destiny was at play when she scored her lead role in the new Kiwi drama Testify.
Paipera plays transgender podcaster Dana in the gritty TVNZ series – which follows a family at the head of a megachurch and the lies that will tear them apart – and while she often goes by her nickname Stacey, her birth name means “Bible” in te reo Ma-ori.
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