Rhona Rees

Rhona Rees is an award winning performer, writer and director with more than 30 years experience in front of the camera and behind the mic. She was a child actor in Australia and her first role at the age of 11 was the lead in a film with Australian screen legend Ernie Dingo. She enjoyed a busy career in Australia, with lead and supporting roles in series like Ocean girl, Blabbermouth and Stickybeak and High Flyers, before moving to Vancouver, BC in 2012. Rhona is well known for her voice work which includes animated series like The Dragon Prince, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Lego Ninjago, Polly Pocket and Littlest Pet Shop. Rhona also voices video games (Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Extraction, Dragalia Lost) and hundreds of commercials (Hyundai, Chromebook, Telus, Huggies and Manulife to name a few). In 2021 Rhona began working as a voice director. Her voice directing credits include 'My First Barbie: Happy DreamDay', 'Isabel and Nicki's Super Duper Twin Adventures' and 'Draculaura's Birthday Surprise' for Mattel, 'Another Code' for Nintendo and 'Rocket Learns to Read' for PBS. Rhona is also an emerging screenwriter and director. Her short film FREYA has won multiple awards at film festivals around the world - including Newport Beach Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival and Etheria. It was acquired by CBC Gem in Canada and Dust worldwide excluding Canada. Rhona won the AACTA & Monster Pictures 'Mother' pitch competition in 2022 and is currently adapting FREYA the short into a feature. Rhona and her team won best pitch at the Frontières international co-production market in 2023 and the script won best sci-fi in the Final draft Big Break Screenwriting Competition the same year. Rhona's subsequent short film, Call Button, which she wrote and directed, has played at various festivals including Mammoth Film Festival, the Sonoma International Film Festival and Dam Short fest. Rhona received a grant from Creative BC in 2024 to write her second feature "Renaissance Woman" - a time travel comedy about body politics. Rhona also writes for animation and developed a 2D kids series with WildBrain studios in 2020. Rhona is an improviser and performs at Tightrope Theatre in Vancouver. She is also a dialect coach, casting assistant, voice teacher and co-creator of Mistressclass, an educational webinar series for the film industry.