Rose Catherine Lettitia Matafeo (born 25 February 1992) is a New Zealand comedian, actress, and TV presenter. She is known for her starring roles in BBC/HBO Max series Starstruck, alongside Stevie Martin and her housemate Emma Sidi, and 2020 film Baby Done with Guy Montgomery and Madeleine Sami, her role in ABC TV comedy series Squinters, as well as being a writer and performer on Three sitcom sketch comedy Funny Girls with Justine Smith. Internationally, Matafeo is notable for a voice role in Disney's Moana 2, alongside Tofiga Fepulea'i. In New Zealand, she appeared on Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee hosted by Guy Montgomery, and Jono and Ben with Guy Williams and Laura Daniel. She has also appeared on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, Travel Man hosted by Joe Lycett, and New Zealand comedy show, 7 days.
In 2019, Matafeo appeared in Series 9 of Taskmaster, finishing second with 159 points. She was the guest on episodes 7 and 102 of Taskmaster The Podcast. In 2023, she became the Taskmaster for Junior Taskmaster, with Mike Wozniak as her assistant.
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- She is the only contestant to feature in another version of Taskmaster than her origin home-town's version, that being Taskmaster NZ, cameoing in Alice Snedden's attempt at Score 43 points playing the duck toss.