Taika Waititi

Taika David Cohen (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi (listen), is a New Zealand film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He is the recipient of an Academy Award and a Grammy Award, as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a television series of the same name (2019–present). It has garnered a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. His most recent directing credits include the superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019), the latter of which he also wrote and starred in as an imaginary version of Ad... ()