Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Clement
Clement in 2021
Born	Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (1974-01-10) 10 January 1974 (age 50) Masterton, New Zealand
Other names	Hiphopopotamus, J-Dog, Mad Dog[1]
Education	Victoria University of Wellington (BA)
Occupations	Actor comedian musician filmmaker
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Miranda Manasiadis ​ ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	1
Musical career
Genres	Comedy folk acoustic
Instrument(s)	Bass guitar guitar percussion keyboards ukulele omnichord drums flute xylophone accordion vocals
Labels	Sub Pop
Comedy career
Medium	Stand-up film television music theatre books
Genres	Observational comedy satire black comedy self-deprecation cringe comedy deadpan
Subject(s)	race relations human sexuality
Musical artist

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974)^[2] 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 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 such as Eagle vs Shark (2007), Gentlemen Broncos (2008), Men in Black 3 (2012), People Places Things (2015), Humor Me (2017), The Festival (2018) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). He has also done voice-work for Despicable Me (2010), Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014), Moana (2016) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). 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 FX Television series of the same name.