Marianne is a multidisciplinary creative powerhouse. She’s a Kapampángan-Filipino actor, producer, and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Infante has taken on the spotlight establishing many of Aotearoa’s “firsts”, she wrote and presented the first Filipino theatre play (“Pinay” at Basement Theatre in 2019), the first Kapampángan short-film (“Mekeni” with Someday Stories 2021) and is starring in TV soap Shortland Street being the first Filipino core cast member as “Nurse Madonna Diaz” from 2021 to now.