-Early Life
Taika Waititi was born on August 16, 1975, in Ruakokore, Waihau Bay. He and his wife married in 2011 and has 2 children named Matewa Kiritapu and Te Hinekāhu. His Dad was an artist and his Mum was a schoolteacher. His Mums side of the family were Russian Jews with a mix of Irish and his Dad is Moari and a bit of French Canadian. His parents split when he was five but his Mother raised him for the most part.
For school, he studied theatre at victoria university of wellington and got a bachelor degree in Art in 1997.
-Work
When he was in school he was also in a five-member ensemble called “So you’re the man”. They toured in New Zealand and Australie and he was also in a comedy duo with Jemaine Clement. In 2005 two of his short films earned him an Acadamy nomination. The movies he’s worked on and been in are Jojo rabbit, What we do in the shadows. Boy, Thor: Ragnarock and Hunt for the wilder people, just to name a few.
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