Biography
Sir Ian Mune is a New Zealand actor, director and screenwriter. Born in Auckland in 1941, he trained as a teacher in Wellington and began acting on stage before spending time in the UK. He returned to New Zealand and built a screen career spanning more than fifty roles over four decades.
Mune played the Reverend in The Piano (1993) and the judge in Once Were Warriors (1994). Other acting credits include Bounder in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), roles in Housebound (2014) and Sweet Tooth (2021), and appearances in television series such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and The Brokenwood Mysteries. As a director his feature films include Came a Hot Friday (1985), The End of the Golden Weather (1991) and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999).
He received numerous New Zealand television and film awards for both acting and directing, including a Feltex award in 1975. In the 2024 New Year Honours he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film, television and theatre.
