Taika Waititi
Taika David Cohen ONZM (born August 16, 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi, is a New Zealand film and television director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award, and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2004 short film Two Cars, One Night earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He 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). The series has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award 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 Hitler". Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Furthermore, Waititi earned a Grammy Award for producing the film's soundtrack. In addition to directing an episode of the television series The Mandalorian (2019–present), he also voices the character IG-11, for which he garnered a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Time Bandits as Supreme Being
- 2023 · Next Goal Wins as American Samoan Priest
- 2023 · History of the World: Part II as Sigmund Freud
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder as Self - Writer / Director / Korg
- 2022 · Thor: Love and Thunder as Korg / Old Kronan God (voice)
- 2022 · Lightyear as Mo Morrison (voice)
- 2022 · Our Flag Means Death as Edward Teach / Blackbeard
- 2021 · That's My Jam as Self - Guest
- 2021 · The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Max Kase
- 2021 · What If...? as Korg (voice)
- 2021 · Free Guy as Antwan Hovachelik
- 2021 · The Suicide Squad as Ratcatcher
- 2021 · RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under as Self - Special Guest
- 2021 · Save Ralph as Ralph (voice)
- 2020 · Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Westley
- 2020 · Russo Bros. Pizza Film School as
- 2020 · Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian as Self - Director & Voice of IG-11
- 2020 · Reunited Apart as Self
- 2020 · Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss as Storsh
- 2019 · Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · The Mandalorian as IG-12 (voice)
- 2019 · The Mandalorian as IG-12 / IG-11 (voice)
- 2019 · The Mandalorian as IG-11 (voice)
- 2019 · Jojo Rabbit as Adolf
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Year of the Rabbit as Musician
- 2019 · Avengers: Endgame as Korg (voice)
- 2019 · What We Do in the Shadows as Viago Von Dorna Schmarten Scheden Heimburg
- 2019 · Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen as Self
- 2019 · Life of a Cantipanican as Zog the Alien
- 2018 · Shrimp as Bartender
- 2018 · All or Nothing: New Zealand All Blacks as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Lie Detector as Self
- 2017 · Thor: Ragnarok as Korg (voice)
- 2016 · Poi E: The Story of Our Song as Self
- 2016 · Hunt for the Wilderpeople as Minister
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · What We Do in the Shadows as Viago
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Glootie (voice)
- 2013 · The Captain as The Captain
- 2011 · Green Lantern as Tom Kalmaku
- 2010 · Radiradirah as Various
- 2010 · Boy as Alamein
- 2007 · Eagle vs Shark as Gordon
- 2007 · Flight of the Conchords as Gypsy Kings Fan
- 2005 · Futile Attraction as Waiter
- 2005 · What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires as Viago
- 2004 · Heinous Crime as
- 2004 · Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! as Self / Frodo Baggins
- 2004 · Toy Boy as Jack Hammer
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · Tongan Ninja as Graham (voice)
- 2002 · The Strip as Mostin
- 2001 · Snakeskin as Nelson
- 2001 · A New Way Home as Max
- 1999 · Scarfies as Alex
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1994 · MTV Europe Music Awards as Self - Host
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Taika Waititi / Daerius D'Avignon (voice)
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self