Biography
Emma Jenkins-Purro is an actor. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1998, she moved to New Zealand at the age of four and holds dual US and New Zealand citizenship. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Acting, from Unitec in 2019.
Her screen credits include the role of Mitsy in the 2022 film Pearl, Leah in the 2022 series My Life Is Murder, Olivia in The Brokenwood Mysteries (2021), and Giselle Ward in One of Us Is Lying (2022). She won Best Supporting Actor for her performance in the short film Bygones (2022) at the Prodigy Film Festival. She is also a director.
