In Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, which actress plays Juliet Hulme?

In Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, Kate Winslet plays Juliet Hulme.

The 1994 film dramatizes the relationship between Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two teenagers in Christchurch, New Zealand. Winslet plays Juliet, while Melanie Lynskey plays Pauline. Their intense friendship and shared imaginative world form the centre of the film.

Heavenly Creatures is based on the real Parker–Hulme case, in which Pauline’s mother, Honorah Parker, was murdered in 1954. The film does not present the events as a documentary; it uses fantasy imagery to show how the girls experience their private fictional world.

Heavenly Creatures was Winslet’s feature-film debut. That fact is sometimes overlooked because she became internationally famous soon afterward through Titanic. Anna Paquin is another New Zealand-connected performer, but she is not the actress who plays Juliet in Jackson’s film.