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Jemaine Clement
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Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement is a New Zealand and United States citizen born in 1974. He works as a stand-up comedian, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His professional activities span acting, film production, film direction, and music. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America West and the group Flight of the Conchords. He has been active since 1994.
Clement performs bass guitar and uses his voice as instruments. He is associated with the genres of country music, alternative rock, and comedy. He records for Sub Pop and speaks English. He resides in Wellington and has one child. His business partner is Bret McKenzie. He was born in Masterton or Wellington, New Zealand.
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Film & TV
Wellington, New Zealand
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 a comedy TV series titled Flight of the Conchords for both the BBC and HBO, for which he received six Primetime Emmy nominations. He has had featured parts in films such as…
Known for
- Avatar 5 — Dr. Ian Garvin2031
- Avatar 4 — Dr. Ian Garvin2029
- I, Object — (voice)2026
- Wildwood — Owl Rex (voice)2026
- Kiri and Lou Go Raaa! — Lou2026
- Alice and Steve — Steve2026
- A Minecraft Movie — Daryl / Bruce (voice)2025
- M3GAN 2.0 — Alton Appleton2025
- Avatar: Fire and Ash — Dr. Garvin2025
- The Moon Is Upside Down — MacIntosh2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- New Zealand
- Active from
- 1974
Discography
- Goodbye Moonmen2015
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 231,893
- Total plays
- 1,493,229
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Jemaine Clement (born 10 January 1974 in New Zealand) is an actor, musician, director, producer, comedian and writer, best known for being half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie. Describing himself as "part Māori part European", Clement spent his formative years in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. Moving to New Zealand's capital Wellington, where he studied drama and film at Victoria University of Wellington, Clement met Taika Waititi (a. <a href="https://
Key facts
- Born
- Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement , ( 1974-01-10 ) 10 January 1974 (age 52) , Masterton , New Zealand
- Other names
- Hiphopopotamus, J-Dog, Mad Dog
- Education
- Victoria University of Wellington ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actor comedian musician filmmaker
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Spouse
- Miranda Manasiadis, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2008 )
- Genres
- Comedy folk acoustic
- Instruments
- Bass guitar guitar percussion keyboards ukulele omnichord drums flute xylophone accordion vocals
- Label
- Sub Pop
- Member of
- Flight of the Conchords
- Medium
- Stand-up film television music theatre books
- Subjects
- New Zealand culture race relations human sexuality
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Masterton
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- comedy
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Sub Pop
- Image
- Jemaine Clemente 2024 (further crop).jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Wellington
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- date of birth
- 1974-01-10
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- Jemaine Clement
- name in native language
- Jemaine Clement
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- birth name
- Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement
- social media followers
- 562607
- partner in business or sport
- Bret McKenzie
- member of
- Flight of the Conchords
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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), Humor Me (2017), The Festival (2018), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also done voice work for Despicable Me (2010), Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014), 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 into a show for the FX television series What We Do in the Shadows.
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