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Taika Waititi
, b. 1975
Taika David Cohen (known professionally as Taika Waititi), is a New Zealand filmmaker and actor. He studied theatre at Victoria University of Wellington and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1997. He is best known for both directing and starring in the films Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Jojo Rabbit (2019). He is the first person of Maori descent to win an Academy Award in a screenplay category, having won the Best Adapted Screenplay for his 2019 film Jojo Rabbit. It also made him the first indigenous person to be nominated (and to win) in the Academy Awards category of Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Profile at imdb.com (accessed: April 17, 2020).
Bio prepared by Hebe Barlow, University of Birmingham, HXB459@student.bham.ac.uk
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