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Film & TV
Auckland, New Zealand
Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa (born 17 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor, singer, and musician. He began acting playing Kane Jenkins in the New Zealand primetime soap opera Shortland Street from 2013 to 2015. Apa is best known for portraying Archie Andrews on The CW television series Riverdale (2017-2023), for which he won a Saturn Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
Known for
- Falling — Jack2026
- Jimmy — Jimmy Stewart2026
- The Map That Leads to You — Jack2025
- A Very Jonas Christmas Movie — Gene2025
- One Fast Move — Wes Neal2024
- Dead Reckoning — Niko2020
- I Still Believe — Jeremy Camp2020
- Songbird — Nico2020
- The Last Summer — Griffin2019
- The Hate U Give — Chris Bryant2018
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Key facts
- Born
- Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa , ( 1997-06-17 ) 17 June 1997 (age 28) , Auckland , New Zealand
- Occupations
- Actor, singer
- Years active
- 2013–present
- Partner
- Clara Berry (2020–2024)
- Relatives
- Michael Jones (uncle)
- Awards
- Full list
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Auckland
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- acting
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- KJ Apa (48478822917) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1997-06-17
- Commons category
- KJ Apa
- birth name
- Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa
- start of work period
- 2013-00-00
- social media followers
- 1220679
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Encyclopedic overview
Keneti James Fitzgerald Apa (born 17 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor and musician. He gained recognition for playing Kane Jenkins in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street (2013–2015) and Archie Andrews in the CW teen drama series Riverdale (2017–2023). He has also starred in the adventure drama film A Dog's Purpose (2017), the teen drama film The Hate U Give (2018), and the biographical romantic drama film I Still Believe (2020). Apa released his debut solo album in 2021, the indie folk-rock album Clocks.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KJ Apa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.