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name: "Caren Pistorius"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/caren-pistorius"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 September 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T12:35:42.722483+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Caren Pistorius

Actor. Born 30 September 1990 in Rustenburg, South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 September 1990, Rustenburg, South Africa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caren_Pistorius, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16542977, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3308569/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046903

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Slow West*](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Caren Pistorius is a New Zealand actress. Born in Rustenburg, South Africa, she moved to Auckland with her family at the age of 12 and began acting in high school theatre productions. She studied art and design at the Auckland University of Technology, majoring in animation and illustration, before returning to theatre and entering television and film work.

Pistorius made her screen debut in the 2009 television series *Legend of the Seeker*. Her international feature film debut came with the role of Rose Ross in the 2015 western *Slow West*, opposite Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee. She has since appeared in films including *The Light Between Oceans* (2016), *Denial* (2016), *Cargo* (2017), *Mortal Engines* (2018), *Gloria Bell* (2019), *Unhinged* (2020) and *The Marsh King's Daughter* (2023).

In 2014 she received nominations for a Graham Kennedy Award and a Logie Award for her Australian television work.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Slow West* (2015), Fi1m 77, as Rose Ross — [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Marsh King's Daughter* (2023), as Beth
- *High Ground* (2021), as Claire
- *Unhinged* (2020), as Rachel Flynn
- *Gloria Bell* (2019), as Anne
- *Mortal Engines* (2018), as Pandora Shaw
- *Wake in Fright* (2017), series, as Janette Hynes
- *Cargo* (2017), as Lorraine
- *Denial* (2016), as Laura Tyler
- *The Light Between Oceans* (2016), as Adult Lucy-Grace
- *Slow West* (2015), as Rose Ross — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/slow-west.md)
- *Paper Giants: Magazine Wars* (2013), series, as Beth Ridgeway
- *The Blue Rose* (2013), series, as Rose Harper
- *The Most Fun You Can Have Dying* (2012), as Chloe
- *Legend of the Seeker* (2008), series, as Luna

## Gallery

- ![Caren Pistorius at the premiere of Denial, 2016 Toronto Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/695374/gallery-c53b29469d49.jpg) Caren Pistorius at the premiere of Denial, 2016 Toronto Film Festival — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Caren_Pistorius_and_Rachel_Weisz_at_the_premiere_of_Denial%2C_at_TIFF%2C_2016_%2829170895094%29.jpg/1280px-Caren_Pistorius_and_Rachel_Weisz_at_the_premiere_of_Denial%2C_at_TIFF%2C_2016_%2829170895094%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Caren Pistorius](https://film.one/media/person/695374/gallery-1cc4ae6c8a10.jpg) Caren Pistorius — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Caren_Pistorius_and_Rachel_Weisz_at_the_premiere_of_Denial%2C_at_TIFF%2C_2016_%2829170895094%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Caren Pistorius](https://film.one/media/person/695374/gallery-5bf09ae176b6.jpg) Caren Pistorius — Image via TMDB
- ![Caren Pistorius](https://film.one/media/person/695374/gallery-c5b401c30c51.jpg) Caren Pistorius — Image via TMDB
- ![Caren Pistorius](https://film.one/media/person/695374/gallery-c587eab6238a.jpg) Caren Pistorius — Image via TMDB

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