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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.

Jemaine Clement
Clement in 2021
Born	Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (1974-01-10) 10 January 1974 (age 48) Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand
Other names	Hiphopopotamus, J-Dog, Mad Dog[1]
Occupation	Actor comedian director musician singer writer
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 xylophone accordion vocals
Labels	Sub Pop
Comedy career
Medium	Stand-up film television theatre books
Genres	Observational comedy satire black comedy self-deprecation cringe comedy deadpan
Subject(s)	race relations human sexuality
Musical artist

He has had featured parts in films such as Dinner for Schmucks (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), People Places Things (2015), Humor Me (2017) and The Festival (2018). He has also done voice-work for Despicable Me (2010), Rio (2011), 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.

Early life

Clement[3] was born on 10 January 1974 in Masterton in the Wairarapa,[4] and was raised there in a working-class family by his mother and grandmother Maikara with his two brothers.[3][5] Clement is Ngāti Kahungunu through his mother, and a direct descendant of the rangatira Iraia Te Ama-o-te-rangi Te Whaiti, who is his tīpuna as his great-great-great grandfather.[6][7] His Pākehā father, Robert, was employed at the freezing works and struggled with alcoholism, leaving home when Clement was a child. Robert would later become a stained glass artist in Midhurst, Taranaki; Jemaine would later reconnect with his father as an adult and now enjoys a "strong and loving" relationship with him.[8]

Clement’s mother and grandmother were strong influences on him as a child, inspiring his sense of humour.[9] Despite having a strong connection to his Māori ethnicity through visiting relatives regularly on trips to various marae, bans on the Māori language being spoken in schools meant Clement grew up in an almost entirely English-speaking environment. He has talked of his regrets about this and has emotionally spoken of the physical abuse his grandmother suffered at school for speaking te reo Māori.[10]

He attended Makoura College in Masterton. After finishing school he moved to Wellington, where he studied drama and film at Victoria University of Wellington. There he met Taika Waititi, with whom he went on to form So You're a Man and The Humourbeasts. In 2004, the Humourbeasts toured New Zealand in a stage show titled The Untold Tales of Maui,[11] a reworking of the traditional Maori legends of Māui. The duo received New Zealand's highest comedy honour, the Billy T Award. During his time in university, he also met Bret McKenzie, with whom he performed in Edinburgh, thus forming Flight of the Conchords.

Career

Music

Clement and McKenzie have toured internationally and released four CDs: Folk the World Tour in 2002, The Distant Future EP in 2007 (winner of 2008 Grammy for Best Comedy Album), Flight of the Conchords in 2008 and I Told You I Was Freaky in 2009. In 2005 the Conchords produced Flight of the Conchords, a six-part comedy radio programme on BBC Radio 2. They appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show. After appearing in 2005 on HBO's One Night Stand, the Conchords were offered their own 12-part HBO series, Flight of the Conchords, which was based on their earlier BBC radio series of the same name.[12] Its first season ran from June to September 2007, and was renewed for a second season, which aired on HBO in the US from January to March 2009.[13] In December 2009, the Conchords announced the show would not have a third season.[14]

Film and television

Clement has appeared in several feature films. His debut was in the kung fu comedy Tongan Ninja, directed by New Zealander Jason Stutter. He has worked with Stutter on two more movies 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. Clement also has a role in American comedy Gentlemen Broncos, directed by Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess. This role landed him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Though Gentlemen Broncos was almost universally panned by critics, some[15] singled out Clement's performance for praise. In 2010, he voiced Jerry in Despicable Me and appeared in the film Dinner for Schmucks. In 2011, he voiced Nigel in Rio, and in 2012 he appeared as the primary antagonist Boris the Animal in Men in Black 3. In 2012, Jemaine co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in a vampire mockumentary titled What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014. He also reprised his role as Nigel in Rio 2.

Clement has starred in television commercials internationally and provided voiceovers for many others in New Zealand. On 5 February 2006, Outback Steakhouse began running a series of television commercials starring Clement during Super Bowl XL in which Clement pretends to be Australian and feigns an Australian accent. One of the long-running gags of Flight of the Conchords is the traditional rivalry between New Zealand and Australia and the differences between their accents. The campaign ended in July 2006.

Clement has been involved in award-winning radio work. In 1999, Clement was a Radio Awards Winner as writer for Trashed, for Channel Z, Wellington.[16] In 2000, he was given a Special Radio Awards Commendation for The Sunglass Store.[17]

Besides his television work on Flight of the Conchords, Clement was a writer and cast member of the television shows Skitz and Tellylaughs in New Zealand.[18][19] Clement, with fellow Conchord member Bret McKenzie, guest starred as a pair of camp counselors in "Elementary School Musical", the season premiere of the 22nd season of The Simpsons, which aired on 26 September 2010.[20]

Clement also played the role of a prisoner in a Russian gulag in the 2014 film Muppets Most Wanted, a sequel to The Muppets (2011).

Clement was featured as one of 2008's "100 Sexiest People" in a special edition of the Australian magazine Who.[21] Fellow Conchord member McKenzie appeared on the same list.

In 2015, Clement voiced a "mind-reading fart"[22] on an episode of the Adult Swim animated series Rick and Morty, where he performed the song "Goodbye Moonmen".[23] Clement also starred in the independent film, People Places Things, which received positive reviews.

In 2016, Clement lent his voice to Tamatoa, a giant coconut crab, in the Disney animated film Moana, both in English, and the Māori dub. He based the character's voice on that of David Bowie.[24]

In 2017, Clement played Oliver Bird in the FX TV series Legion. He also voiced Sauron in The Lego Batman Movie.

Personal life

Clement's whānau did not have a car when he was a boy, and as a result he has never learnt to drive.[25] In August 2008, Clement married his longtime girlfriend, theatre actress and playwright Miranda Manasiadis.[26] Their son, Sophocles Iraia, was born in October 2008 in New York City and is named after Manasiadis's Greek great-grandfather Sophocles, and Clement's tipuna Iraia Te Ama-o-te-rangi Te Whaiti.[27][28] They live in Wellington.

Filmography

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Blood Suckers	Vampire	Short film
1999	Fizz[29]	Chased Man	Short film
2002	Tongan Ninja[30]	Action Fighter (Marvin)	Also writer
2004	Futile Attraction	Editor
2007	Eagle vs Shark	Jarrod
2009	Gentlemen Broncos	Ronald Chevalier	Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male
	Diagnosis: Death	Garfield Olyphant
2010	Despicable Me	Jerry the Minion	Voice cameo
	Predicament	Spook
	Dinner for Schmucks	Kieran Vollard
2011	Rio	Nigel (voice)	Nominated — Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2012	Men in Black 3	Boris the Animal	Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain
2014	What We Do in the Shadows	Vladislav	Also director, writer and co-producer
	Muppets Most Wanted	Prison King
	Rio 2	Nigel (voice)
2015	Don Verdean	Boaz
	People Places Things	Will Henry
2016	The BFG	The Fleshlumpeater	Voice and motion capture
	Moana	Tamatoa (voice)	Reprises this role in the 2017 Māori dub of the movie
2017	The Lego Batman Movie	Sauron (voice)
	Humor Me	Nate Kroll
	Brad's Status	Billy Wearsiter
2018	An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn	Colin Keith Threadener
	The Breaker Upperers	Tinder Date	Cameo
	The Festival	Robin
2019	Patrick	Dustin
2020	I Used to Go Here	David Kirkpatrick
2022	Nude Tuesday	Bjorg Rasmussen
	Don't Make Me Go	Dale Angelo
	DC League Of Super-Pets	Aquaman (voice)
2022	Avatar: The Way of Water	Dr. Ian Garvin	Post-production
2024	Avatar 3		Post-production
TBA	Wildwood		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	The Enid Blyton Adventure Series	MIS Guard	Episode: "Circus of Adventures"
2002	The Tribe	VR Cowboy No. 2	1 episode
2007–2009	Flight of the Conchords	Himself	22 episodes Also co-creator, writer and executive producer
2008	The Drinky Crow Show	Alien (voice)	2 episodes
2009	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Eric's Tennis Double	Episode: "Tennis"
2010	Radiradirah	Various	3 episodes
2010	The Simpsons	Ethan Ballantyne (voice)	Episode: "Elementary School Musical"[20]
2012	Napoleon Dynamite	Professor Koontz (voice)	Episode: "Scantronica Love"
2013	Out There	Babel / Tenebres (voices)	Episode: "Enter Destiny"
2013	#7DaysLater	Ms. Lockett's Father (voice)	Episode: "Portrait"
2014	Short Poppies	—	Director
2014–2016	TripTank	Various (voices)	7 episodes
2015	Rick and Morty	Fart (voice)	Episode: "Mortynight Run"
2016	Regular Show	Ziggy (voice)	Episode: "California King"
2016	Inside Amy Schumer	DJ	Episode: "Psychopath Test"
2016–2018	Another Period	Father Black Donahue	4 episodes
2016	Divorce	Julian Renaut	6 episodes
2016–2019	Milo Murphy's Law	Orton Mahlson / Dr. Zone (voice)	5 episodes
2017–2019	Legion	Oliver Bird	14 episodes
2017	American Dad!	Magunga (voice)	Episode: "Bazooka Steve"
2017	Wrecked	Luther	3 episodes
2017	Robot Chicken	Narrator (voice)	1 episode
2018–present	Wellington Paranormal	Mobot (voice)	Co-creator, director, writer and executive producer Episode: "Mobot"
2018	We Bare Bears	Courtney (voice)	Episode: "Rescue Ranger"
2018	Flight of the Conchords: Live in London	Himself	Special Also writer and producer
2019–present	What We Do in the Shadows	Vladislav	Also co-creator, director, writer and executive producer 2 episodes
2019–present	Kiri and Lou	Lou (voice)	Main role
2019	Year of the Rabbit	Tall Man	Episode: "Framed Rabbit"
2020	Steven Universe Future	Kerry Moonbeam (voice)	Episode: "Mr. Universe"
2020–present	Tig n' Seek	This Guy (voice)	Main role
2021	Big Mouth	Simon Sex (voice)	Episode: "Best Friends Make the Best Lovers"
2022	Human Resources		Episode: "International Creature Convention"
2023	Koala Man	Principal Bazwell (voice)	Main role, upcoming series
TBA	Time Bandits	—	Co-writer and executive producer, upcoming miniseries

Discography

Year	Title	Notes
2002	Folk the World Tour	Flight of the Conchords
2007	The Distant Future	Flight of the Conchords
2008	Flight of the Conchords	Flight of the Conchords
2009	I Told You I Was Freaky	Flight of the Conchords
2016	"Shiny"	Moana soundtrack
2018	”Goodbye Moonmen”	The Rick and Morty Soundtrack
2019	Live in London	Flight of the Conchords
2020	“Mr. Universe”	Steven Universe Future

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Flight of the Conchords	Jemaine	Also writer
2016	The Mysterious Secrets Of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium	Lord Joseph Banks	Podcast

Awards and nominations

Award	Year[lower-alpha 1]	Nominated work	Category	Result	Ref.
Annie Awards	2010	The Simpsons: Elementary School Musical	Music in a Television Production	Nominated
	2011	Rio	Voice Acting in a Feature Production	Nominated
Emmy Awards	2008	"Yoko"	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series	Nominated	[31][32]
		"Inner City Pressure"	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	Nominated
		"The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)"		Nominated
	2009	Flight of the Conchords	Outstanding Comedy Series	Nominated
		Flight of the Conchords	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series	Nominated
		"Prime Minister"	Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series	Nominated
		"Carol Brown"	Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics	Nominated
	2019	"Father & Son"		Nominated
	2020	What We Do in the Shadows	Outstanding Comedy Series	Nominated
Grammy Awards	2007	The Distant Future	Best Comedy Album	Won	[33]
	2008	Flight of the Conchords		Nominated
	2010	I Told You I Was Freaky		Nominated
New Zealand Music Awards	2008	Flight of the Conchords	Album of the Year	Won
			Best Group	Won
			Breakthrough Artist of the Year	Won
		Flight of the Conchords	International Achievement	Won
	2013	"Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)"	Highest Selling New Zealand Single	Won
New Zealand Television Awards	2019	Wellington Paranormal	Best Script: Comedy	Nominated
Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards	2008	Flight of the Conchords	Funniest Duo	Nominated
Satellite Awards	2007	Flight of the Conchords	Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy	Nominated
	2009			Nominated
			Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy	Nominated
TCA Awards	2008	Flight of the Conchords	Outstanding Achievement in Comedy	Nominated
			Outstanding New Program	Nominated
Teen Choice Awards	2012	Men in Black 3	Choice Movie Villain	Nominated
Writers Guild of America Awards	2007	Flight of the Conchords	Comedy Series	Nominated	[34]
			New Series	Nominated
		"Sally Returns"	Episodic Comedy	Nominated
	2019	What We Do in the Shadows	New Series	Nominated

Notes

References

External links

• Jemaine Clement at IMDb
• NZ on screen profile
• BBC Radio 2

На других языках

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[de] Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Clement (* 10. Januar 1974 in Masterton) ist ein neuseeländischer Schauspieler, Musiker, Komiker, Regisseur und Produzent.

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[es] Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (Masterton, Wellington, 10 de enero de 1974) es un comediante, actor y multinstrumentista neozelandés, conocido como parte del dúo cómico Flight of the Conchords y por ser la voz de Pepillo La Cacatúa en la serie de películas Río.

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[ru] Клемент, Джемейн

Джемейн Клемент (англ. Jemaine Clement) — новозеландский актёр, продюсер, музыкант и композитор. Наиболее известен как участник комедийно-музыкального дуэта «Flight of the Conchords», вместе с Бретом Маккензи. Обладатель премии «Грэмми 2008» за лучший комедийный альбом, также имеет 7 номинаций на прайм-таймовую премию «Эмми» (2008, 2009).

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