Taika Waititi
Director · Actor · Screenwriter
Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows and Klara and the Sun.
Overview
Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian from the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island. He came up through comedy in Wellington, including the duo The Humourbeasts with Jemaine Clement. His early features Eagle vs Shark, Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople were hits at home, and the vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, made with Clement, grew into an FX series. Marvel hired him for Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Jojo Rabbit in 2020. In October 2026 Sony released his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams.
Quick Facts
- Occupation
- Director, Actor, Screenwriter
- Born
- August 16, 1975 in Raukokore, New Zealand
Latest PCP Coverage
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Taika Waititi Calls ‘Klara and the Sun’ Critics ‘Irrelevant’ and ‘Out of Touch’
The director used a Halloween Instagram post to point to the film’s audience score and call reviewers “in the bin.”