On January 10, 1974, Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement, a New Zealander, was born. He is an actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.
Clement also has a role in the American comedy Gentlemen Broncos, which is directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite. For this performance, he received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male.
Where did Jemaine Clement go to college and high school? Did Jemaine Clement go to film school?
In Masterton, Jemaine Clement studied at Makoura College. After high school, he moved to Wellington and enrolled at the Victoria University of Wellington to study acting and film.
There, he met Taika Waititi, with whom he later co-founded The Humourbeasts and So You’re a Man. The Untold Tales of Maui, a play by the Humourbeasts that reimagined the well-known Maori legends of Maui, was performed in 2004.
The couple received the Billy T Award, New Zealand’s finest comic honour. He also met Bret McKenzie in college, and the two went on to establish Flight of the Conchords, which they later performed in Edinburgh.
