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    Taika Waititi

    New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian

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  1. Apr 21, 2024 · Taika Waititi (born August 16, 1975, Raukokore, New Zealand) is a New Zealand comedian, director, writer, and actor who is known for his anarchic sensibility and eye for the absurd as well as for a generally humane and kind worldview. Waititi was the son of a Māori father who was an artist and a mother of mostly Russian Jewish descent who ...

  2. Taika Waititi. Producer: What We Do in the Shadows. Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. Taika has ...

  3. Nov 17, 2023 · Film writer and critic. Taika Waititi would really rather just go to the beach. In an interview, the 48-year-old Māori filmmaker of the upcoming “Next Goal Wins” says he's already begun planning how he can quit Hollywood, which he calls “just sad people eating lukewarm food out of cardboard boxes in offices.”.

  4. Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian. Waititi began his film career in the early 2000s by directing short films. His short film Two Cars, One Night (2003) got him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. His first feature film, Eagle vs Shark, was released in 2007.

  5. Feb 10, 2020 · 1:59 p.m. Feb. 13, 2020 This post says Taika Waititi is the first person of Maori descent to win an Oscar. Sound engineer Hammond Peek won Oscars for sound mixing in 2004 and 2006. Waititi is the ...

  6. 5 days ago · Taika Waititi and Rita Ora were friends for four years before they got married in 2022 Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined PEOPLE in 2021, but has ...

  7. Oct 18, 2019 · Director Taika Waititi's new movie is an unusual, though not unheard of take on Nazi-era Germany. It's a very dark comedy. I talked to Waititi earlier this week, and I asked him about the main ...

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