New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi has become a creative powerhouse in Hollywood, accruing credits as an actor, writer, producer and director in a string of projects for both film and television. Still best known perhaps for his controversial 2019 hit Jojo Rabbit, for which he won the Oscar for best-adapted screenplay, Waititi, who is half Maori and half Jewish, describes.
The New Zealand filmmaker, 46, was a renowned party animal on the social circuit in Hollywood, who rose to fame after making feature films Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Taika Waititi, in full Taika David Waititi, also known as Taika David Cohen, (born August 16, 1975, Raukokore, New Zealand), New Zealand comedian, director, writer, and actor who was 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 worked as a teacher. The couple divorced when he was a young child, and he grew up mostly with his mother in Wellington, New Zealand, with many visits to his