Taika David Cohen ONZM popularly known as Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian.
Waititi is a recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, Grammy Award, and has received two nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards.
His feature films Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film.
Waititi co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror-comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a television series of the same name in 2019.
His most recent directing credits include the superhero films Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) as well as the black comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019).
Taika Waititi was married to New Zealand film producer Chelsea Winstanley and they had two children; Matewa Kiritapu and Te Hinekāhu.
Matewa Kiritapu: Who is Taika Waititi’s daughter?
Matewa Kiritapu is the youngest child of Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley.
She was born on August 11, 2015, in New Zealand.
Matewa Kiritapu is a New Zealand child actress.
She starred as Asgardian Kid in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
Matewa Kiritapu is 6 years old as of 2021.