As New Zealand has developed a culture of its own, many of its artists, writers and musicians have become well-known. Because the country has such a small population, celebrities usually have to go abroad to become internationally famous: for example, opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, writer Katherine Mansfield and film star Sam Neill. Others are making the world come to them, like film makers Peter Jackson (Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners) and Jane Campion (The Piano).

"In the English-speaking World"