12 Facts About Lee Tamahori

Warren Lee Tamahori is a New Zealand filmmaker best known for directing the 1994 film Once Were Warriors, the 2001 film Along Came a Spider, and 2002's James Bond film Die Another Day.

Lee Tamahori is of Maori ancestry on his father's side and British on his mother's.

Lee Tamahori moved into the film industry in the late 1970s, initially getting in the door by working for nothing, then working as a boom operator for Television New Zealand, and on the feature films: Skin Deep, Goodbye Pork Pie, and Bad Blood.

In 1986 Lee Tamahori co-founded production company Flying Fish, which specialised in making commercials.

Lee Tamahori made his name with a series of high-profile television commercials, including one awarded 'Commercial of the Decade'.

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Lee Tamahori had directed a number of shorter dramas for television before he made his feature film debut in 1994 with Once Were Warriors, a gritty depiction of a violent Maori family.

Lee Tamahori moved to Hollywood and directed the period thriller Mulholland Falls, although this was not received well critically or commercially.

Lee Tamahori directed an episode of The Sopranos and the thriller Along Came a Spider.

In 2012 Tamahori was attached to the action epic Emperor, about a young woman seeking revenge for the execution of her father by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Adrien Brody was cast in 2014 as the Emperor opposite Sophie Cookson as the young woman, cast in 2014.

In 2015 Lee Tamahori directed Mahana, his first feature made in New Zealand since Once Were Warriors.

Lee Tamahori has been married twice and has two sons, one from each marriage.

Lee Tamahori was placed on 36 months' probation and ordered to perform 15 days of community service.