Rose Matafeo is a BAFTA nominated comedian, writer and actor from New Zealand. 

Rose’s critically acclaimed show Horndog won the award (formerly the Perrier) for Best Show at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was nominated for Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. She has since recorded the show as a special for HBO MAX. Her quirky, hilarious performances are a great choice for corporate events and her friendly and relatable style is guaranteed to win over audiences of all kinds.

Her own sitcom, Starstruck, which she has written and stars in was commissioned by BBC3 in the UK and HBO Max in the US. The first two series of Starstruck have been streamed over 8.2m times on BBC iPlayer so far in the UK where it became the channel’s best performing new comedy of the year before airing on HBO Max in the US, the show was also pre-sold to over 50 territories including Australia (ABC) and New Zealand (TVNZ).

Rose starred in series 9 of Dave/Channel 4’s hit game show Taskmaster and has also appeared on The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), Have I Got News For You, W1A (BBC One), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (Channel 4), Unspun with Matt Forde, and Jon Richardson’s Ultimate Worrier (Dave), to name just a few.

In the US, Rose has performed a stand up slot on Conan (TBS). In New Zealand, Rose has written, produced and starred in three series of TV3 comedy Funny Girls, as well as being a regular on panel show 7 Days (Three Now NZ). She also starred in the feature Baby, Done (Piki Films) and co-hosts the podcast Boners of the Heart with Alice Snedden.