1. Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement was born on 10 January 1974 and is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.
23 Facts About Jemaine Clement
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Jemaine Clement 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.
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Jemaine Clement has had featured parts in films such as Eagle vs Shark, Gentlemen Broncos, Men in Black 3, People Places Things, Humor Me, The Festival, Avatar: The Way of Water and A Minecraft Movie.
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Jemaine Clement has done voice-work for Despicable Me, Rio and Rio 2, Moana and The Lego Batman Movie.
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Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement was born on 10 January 1974 in Masterton in the Wairarapa, and was raised there in a working-class family by his mother and grandmother Maikara with his two brothers.
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Jemaine Clement's Pakeha father, Robert, was employed at the freezing works and struggled with alcoholism, leaving home when Clement was a child.
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Jemaine Clement has talked of his regrets about this and has emotionally spoken of the physical abuse his grandmother suffered at school for speaking te reo Maori.
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Jemaine Clement's debut was in the kung fu comedy Tongan Ninja, directed by New Zealander Jason Stutter.
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Jemaine Clement has worked with Stutter on two more films to date: the low budget ghost comedy Diagnosis: Death and the drama Predicament, based on the book by late New Zealand novelist Ronald Hugh Morrieson.
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Jemaine Clement has a role in American comedy Gentlemen Broncos, directed by Napoleon Dynamites Jared Hess.
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In 2012, Jemaine Clement co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in a vampire mockumentary titled What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi.
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Jemaine Clement reprised his role as Nigel in Rio 2.
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Jemaine Clement has starred in television commercials internationally and provided voiceovers for many others in New Zealand.
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In 1999, Jemaine Clement was a Radio Awards Winner as writer for Trashed, for Channel Z, Wellington.
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Besides his television work on Flight of the Conchords, Jemaine Clement was a writer and cast member of the television shows Skitz and Tellylaughs in New Zealand.
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Jemaine Clement played the role of a prisoner in a Russian gulag in the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, a sequel to The Muppets.
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In 2015, Jemaine Clement voiced a "mind-reading fart" on an episode of the Adult Swim animated series Rick and Morty, where he performed the song "Goodbye Moonmen".
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Jemaine Clement starred in the independent film, People Places Things, which received positive reviews.
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In 2016, Jemaine Clement lent his voice to Tamatoa, a giant coconut crab, in the Disney animated film Moana, both in English, and the Maori dub.
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Jemaine Clement based the character's voice on that of David Bowie.
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In 2017, Jemaine Clement played Oliver Bird in the FX TV series Legion.
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In 2019, Jemaine Clement played the role of a musician in the Belgian film Patrick.
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Jemaine Clement's family did not have a car when he was a boy, and as a result he has never learned to drive.