Jemaine Clement

Biography

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. He has released several albums with Bret McKenzie as the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and created the comedy television series of the same name (2007–2009) for both the BBC and HBO, for which he received six Primetime Emmy nominations.

He has had featured parts in films including Eagle vs Shark (2007), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012), People Places Things (2015), The BFG (2016), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also done voice work for Rio (2011) and its 2014 sequel, Moana (2016), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Thelma the Unicorn (2024), and Wildwood (2026). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with What We Do in the Shadows, which he also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Taika Waititi, and later adapted the film into the FX television series What We Do in the Shadows (2019–2024).

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