Dana Youngman

Dana Youngman is a New Zealand television and screen executive. A Samoan New Zealander, she won a 2021 New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.

Biography Youngman spent her early years in the Auckland suburb of Avondale. Her mother, Mata, had emigrated from Samoa to train as a nurse, and her Pākehā father, Brian, was a police officer. The family moved to Dannevirke in the Hawke's Bay region when she was at primary school. After three years at Sky, Youngman was appointed strategic advisor to the chief executive at the New Zealand Film Commission.

Youngman has been nominated for television awards. In 2003, she was nominated with Lisa Pringle for the Best Lifestyle Series Award at the New Zealand Television Awards for Maggie's Garden Show. In 2019, she was nominated with Damon Fepulea'i for the Best Pasifika Programme Award and the Best Sports Programme Award for Life After Footy – Legends of the Pacific at the New Zealand Television Awards. Her commissioned series INSiDE won an International Emmy Award for Best Short-Form Series in 2021.

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