# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-wawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:11:57.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-wawa"
name: "Marie Wawa"
slug: "marie-wawa"
description: "Marie Wawa is a ni-Vanuatu actress and villager who starred in the 2015 Australian-Vanuatuan film, Tanna. The film, which was the first to be shot entirely in Vanuatu, won two major prizes at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017. Wawa appears in the lead role opposite Mungau Dain as two star-crossed lovers."
tagline: "Ni-Vanuatu film actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marie_Wawa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           41.63
  momentum:             20.98639455782313
  historical:           5.075126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8426078/"
    handle:    "nm8426078"
sources:
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wawa"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wawa"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wawa"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wawa"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Wawa"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28492186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1577842"
    title: "Marie Wawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump