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Ren in a Nutshell

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http://www.reneeoconnorfanclub.com/news.html

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Renee's Latest Interview on Braveheart WomenTV
WOW !!!
You MUST watch this one!

Go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hk2iUvru4

for full screen!

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Saturday 18 April 09
SOME GREAT PICTURES OF RENEE' IN RIO

Here is the link for some of the pictures taken! Enjoy!!!
http://picasaweb.google.c...18042009?feat=directlink

Thanks to: Desyrée Girão

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Renee's 2nd Appearance on Filmnut
Watch this Episode on www.theStream.tv

Renee' talks about her short film "Words Unspoken"

and her work in the web series "Ark."

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2009 CON Pictures of Renee at:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&w=11902527%40N05

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There is a larger double page photo of Renne' on the Right side. This interview is from the June 20th issue of NZ Next Magazine

The road to Muriwai Beach is as Kiwi as Auckland gets. The buildings look like they've stretched out a bit; made themselves at home. Equal room is given to trees and weeds, and the fruit shops are tucked away into every gravel-covered corner.

And the road to Renee O'Connor's place is as Kiwi as Muriwai Beach gets. Iron sands glimmer in the distance and nikau palms point the way to a kinhfisher in a cabbage tree. "He's been here since we moved in. My host says, sinking into a deck chair. Nursing a cup of Bell tea, Renee's soft Texas drawl is the only thing saving me from an overdose of Kiwiana.

Whether the diminutive actress is defined as a sweet little Texan, or as leather-bound, sword-wielding Gabrielle of the 90's TV show Xena: Warrior Princess depends on who you are talking to. And where. If you are out and about with the blond in West Auckland, say, you'd find people would go for the Gabrielle option, then refuse to believe the nod of confirmation,"because there's no leather and I'm standing in a supermarket line". But if you were in Renee's main base, Los Angeles, people would call her well probably nothing actually. "People are too cool to acknowledge you there." She laughs.

Renee' 37, is in a carefree mood, barefoot and makeup free, she's clearly a long, long way from Hollywood right now. But even in LA, she's un-Hollywood she says. "I don't even ware makeup much" she tells me, before admitting, "but I do love to buy it. Mi daughter Iris is obsessed with it - 'lippy' was her first word.

Iris, two and Renee's son Miles, six. Have taken precedence since Renee's days of defending the world from the dark forces. With her divorce from New Zealand restaurant manager Steve Muir to contend with, she wanted to turn her focus to being a mother. But the decision wasn't without problems.

"I'd been driven so do long that to step back and have kids caused a bit of loss of identity." she says. "After a while I realized if I'm not being who I am as an artistic person, I'm not being a good role model."

So Renee' expanded her creative career to encompass acting, producing and painting, sometimes using the latter endeavor to fund the first two. Selling paintings at Xena conventions may seem an unusual way to source film funding, but it's in sync with the rest of the Diamonds ans Guns' production process. Renee' learned a lot about producing during this three-and-a-half year movie project and it was also where she met her current partner and Iris's father, Jed Sura.

The comedy, about a Kiwi girl who goes husband shopping in Las Vegas in order to aviod deportation, also came about in an unorthodox way. "I ran into Helena Beaven, who worked with me in Xena, at a function at the New Zealand Consulate," Says Renee'. "She was so frustrated with working in LA; there were no parts for her, so she made her own. I was attracted to he because of that."

There have other professional adventures including time in North Carolina filming the 2007 western Ghost Town, and a trip to Bulgaria where her recent movie Genesis Code was set. Watching a clip from the film, it looks like Renee' views acting like riding a bike - she's been doing it so long it's second nature. The actress started out on The Mickey Mouse Club. "I don't remember if I ever did meet Britney," she says of her fellow MMC alumna.

But her real-live childhood couldn't have been more different from her time on the Disney set. "My mother married my stepfather when I was only two years old and my brother was five." Renee' says. She was in that marriage for 16 years and the whole time the three of us lived in a frightful world which was rife with domestic violence. We were all too scared to leave the situation."

Renee's trying to help other who have been abused , working with the Richstone Family Center in LA. Clearly charity work is good for the soul, but so too is horsing around with one of your best mates. Her six-year stint in New Zealand produced strong friendships, including one with Lucy Lawless, who played Xena. "I only see her about twice a year, but I feel like a version of a sister who I can call any time."

"What a blessing that show was," Renee' says of Xena. "A duo of women, protectors of the innocent? To have my background and play someone like that was profound."

Other people Renee' can call on include the 'Rent-a-Crowd"; the name her Kiwi group of friends gave themselves because they turn up at each other's everything. Luckily Renee' is equally conversant in her native and adoptive tongues. "I still have all the Texan in me - all the 'y'alls' - but now the 'cheers' and 'giddays' are who I am."

If you don't believe her ... well I just would. Renee's Kiwi heritage may be adopted but, but it's a heritage she's prepared to defend. "I had a fight with a tree guy this morning to save that kauri over there," she say, pointing to a stately roadside native. "I guess I'm a California tree hugger at heart." 

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ONCE THE SEXIEST ALWAYS THE SEXIEST

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Renee was voted # 3 of the most intriguing people in 1996, by People Online.

She was # 2 in 1997, and was also one of the most beautiful people of 1997, by People Online.

She made the cover of TV Guide on the July 29, 2000 to August 4, 2000, issue and it is one of eight collector's covers.

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Twenty Years With Renee'

"Those are the things, that you just have to say yes to in life, and take it by the balls and go for it, and jump off that mountain."

Renee' O'Connor

RENEE'S AWARDS INCLUDE:

2000 TV.Com Award for Best Actress TV Series
2001 UPBEAT Entertainment News Award for Best Actress in a TV Drama or Comedy Series
2001 The Tube File Awards - Best Actress in a TV Drama or Comedy Series
2005 "One Weekend a Month" - Sundance Film Festival 2005 - Short Filmaking Award Meg McDermott - Renee' O'Connor Winner, Jury Prize - Short Film
2009 "Words Unspoken" - Indiefest Film Festival - Renee' O'Connor / ROC Pictures. Writer - Director - Producer - Actor Winner, Award of Merit.
2009 Number One in the AfterEllen Top 10 Lesbian/Bi Sidekicks for her role as Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess.
2009 Semi-Finalist: Words Unspoken, ROC Pictures, Renee' O'Connor Director, Moondance Film Festival, Bolder CO
2009 Words Unspoken, ROC Pictures, Renee' O'Connor, Writer, Directer, Producer, Actor, Short Film Category, Finalist, Central Florida Film Festival.
2009 Viewer Favorite: "Words Unspoken" Short Film Category - Dallas VideoFest - Dallas, TX

At the 2009 West Hollywood International Film Festival "Words Unspoken" won awards a in three catecories:

Best Short Film
Best Actor/Actress - Renee' as Sue
Best Drama / Honorable Mention / Renee' as a Writer, Director and Producer

Renee' at Home In Muriwai Beach New Zealand

[The Full Article is on the lower left side]

Muriwai Beach is a beautiful coastal community of 2,000 people located on the west coast of North island and is one of the most ruggedly, picturesque wilderness in New Zealand located within a 30 minute drive west from Auckland City. It is known for its spectacular black volcanic sand beaches, great surfing, fantastic scenery and home to one of New Zealand's largest colony of gannets. Renee's home sits on a bluff overlooking Maori Bay. The noble beast Renee' is on was provided by Muriwai Beach Riding Center and the photo was taken by Calli for the June 20, 08 issue of NEXT Magazine.

"It's such a beautiful country, New Zealand. It's one of the most serene, gorgeous places I've ever been to. I was thinking about this just the other day because it's not an overwhelming sense of a religious kind of feeling but the country is so incredibly gorgeous and beautiful you almost don't see to look anywhere else but to sit and enjoy what's in front of you so, I think that's definitely one of the highlights of being in that environment. It's peaceful to me and it's something that I hold very dear to my heart and always want to go back and recreate that feeling."
Renee' O'Connor