Career
He also starred in the film The Dead Lands, which was released in October 2014 and had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 4 September. Rolleston is from Opotiki. He made his screen debut in Taika Waititi film Boy, playing the main role of the child who idolises his father.
Boy became the most successful local film released in New Zealand to date.
In 2014 he took roles in two further films: critically acclaimed drama The Dark Horse, in which he co-starred opposite Cliff Curtis as a teenager who is set to be initiated into a gang, and action movie The Dead Lands, in which he plays a young Maori warrior seeking vengeance for the massacre of his family. Rolleston also frequently appears in Vodafone New Zealand television commercials.
