Marianne is a passionate and driven creative artist. She graduated from UNITEC in 2016 with a Bachelor of Performing & Screen Arts, Majoring in Acting. Marianne is a core cast member on New Zealand's premier soap Shortland Street, playing the ground breaking character, Madonna Diaz. Alongside her passion for the stage and camera, Marianne is the creative producer of Proudly Asian Theatre, a contemporary theatre company driven by Asian artists in Aotearoa, and she is an Equity New Zealand board member.