Bret McKenzie

Bret McKenzie ONZM
McKenzie at the Muppets Most Wanted premiere on 11 March 2014
Background information
Birth name	Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie
Also known as	Rhymenoceros
Born	(1976-06-29) 29 June 1976 (age 47) Wellington, New Zealand
Genres	Comedy folk acoustic
Occupation(s)	Musician songwriter comedian actor music supervisor
Instrument(s)	Guitar keyboard bass guitar drums vocals ukulele
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Sub Pop
Relatives	Deirdre Tarrant (mother) Peter McKenzie (father)

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie ONZM (born 29 June 1976) is a New Zealand musician, comedian, music supervisor, and actor. He is best known as one half of musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement. In the 2000s, the duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an oft-lauded American television series, which aired for two seasons on HBO. Active since 1998, the duo released their most recent comedy special, Live in London, in 2018.

Primarily a musician, McKenzie has worked as a songwriter and music supervisor for film and television since the 2010s. He served as music supervisor for two Muppet films, The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), the former of which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Man or Muppet". In the 2000s, McKenzie was part of reggae fusion band The Black Seeds and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, and, in the 2010s, he began performing solo material. His debut album Songs Without Jokes was released in August 2022.

As an actor, he portrayed elves in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies: in the first he remained unnamed with fans naming him Figwit, a character originally cast as an extra who gained attention thanks to the trilogy's fan community. He later appears in The Hobbit as Lindir, a minor character who originally appears in the book of The Fellowship of the Ring.