Taika Waititi Net Worth, Bio, Dating, Wife, Age, Salary !

By Veer Rajput Last updated Aug 23, 2022

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand director, writer, comedian, actor, and painter. He has massive net worth after releasing Love : Thor and thunder.

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Taika Waititi’s Early Life and Biography

Taika David Cohen was born on August 16, 1975, in Raukokore, New Zealand. This is where Taika Waititi grew up. When he was young, his mother, a teacher named Robin Cohen, and his father, a farmer and artist named Taika Waititi, broke up.

Robin mostly raised Taika, and he went to Onslow College before starting to study theatre at Victoria University of Wellington. In 1997, he got a Bachelor of Arts degree.

At first, he used the last name Cohen for his film projects and the last name Waititi for his visual art projects. Taika has said that he is a “Polynesian Jew” because he was “half Jewish and half Maori” when he was growing up.

While he was at Victoria University, he met Jemaine Clement, who would later help him write and direct “What We Do in the Shadows.” Together, they started the comedy groups So You’re a Man and The Humour beasts.

The Humour beasts made a stage show called “The Untold Tales of Maui.” When they toured New Zealand with the show, it won them the prestigious Billy T Award.

Taika Waititi’s Net Worth

According to Celebritynetworth Taika Waititi is a New Zealander who has a net worth of $13 million. He is a director, writer, comedian, actor, and painter.

Net Worth:	$13 Million
Date of Birth:	Aug 16, 1975 (46 years old)
Gender:	Male
Profession:	Film Director, Screenwriter, Comedian, Actor, Photographer
Nationality:	New Zealand

Taika Waititi’s Career

Waititi made his acting debut in the 1999 New Zealand movie “Scarfies.” Soon after, he was in the movie “Snakeskin” (2001) and the TV shows “The Strip,” “The Tribe,” “Revelations,” and “Freaky” (2003). T

he short film “John and Pogo,” which Taika wrote and directed in 2002, was followed by “Two Cars, One Night” in 2004 and “Tama T” and “What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires” in 2005.

“Eagle vs. Shark,” which came out in 2007, was his first full-length movie. It starred Jemaine Clement, and Waititi played Gordon in the movie.

“Boy,” his second full-length movie, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

Waititi was Alamein in the movie, and he was Thomas Kalmaku in “Green Lantern” in 2011. Taika co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in “What We Do in the Shadows,” a mockumentary about vampires that came out in 2014.

It won a number of awards and led to a spin-off series with the same name in the U.S. and “Wellington Paranormal” in New Zealand.

Awards and Nomination

Waititi has been nominated for three Academy Awards. He won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Jojo Rabbit” in 2020. He was also nominated for Best Short Film, Live Action for “Two Cars, One Night” and Best Motion Picture of the Year for “Jojo Rabbit.”

He has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys: Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for “The Mandalorian” and Outstanding Comedy Series for “What We Do in the Shadows.”

The screenplay for “Jojo Rabbit” won him awards from the BAFTA Awards, the AACTA International Awards, the Hollywood Critics Association, the Online Association of Female Film Critics, and the Writers Guild of America.

The movie also won him a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and won awards at the Leeds International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Aspen Filmfest, and the CinEuphoria Awards.

Personal Life

In 2011, Taika got married to the filmmaker Chelsea Winstanley. The couple has two daughters, Te Hinekhu and Matewa Kiritapu.

Waititi and Winstanley have worked together on a number of projects, such as “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Jojo Rabbit.”

In 2018, they are said to have broken up. In May 2020, Taika narrated a 10-part reading of “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl by a group of famous people to raise money for the charity Partners in Health.

Assets

Taika and Chelsea bought a 2,323-square-foot home in the Studio City neighbourhood of Los Angeles for $2.4 million in 2018.

Early in 2021, they put the four-bedroom, three-bathroom house up for sale for $2.75 million. Marti Noxon, who wrote, directed, and produced for shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “UnREAL,” and “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” used to own the house.

Success

Waititi wrote and directed the movies “Eagle vs. Shark” (2007), “Boy” (2010), “What We Do in the Shadows” (2014), “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” (2016), and “Jojo Rabbit” (2019).

He also directed “Thor: Ragnarok,” which made $854 million at the box office and was a huge hit for Marvel.

Taika has produced the movies “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” and “Jojo Rabbit,” as well as the TV shows “Wellington Paranormal” (2018–present) and “What We Do in the Shadows” (2019–present).

His 2004 short film “Two Cars, One Night” got him a nomination for an Academy Award. As an actor, Waititi has played Viago in “What We Do in the Shadows,” Korg in “Thor: Ragnarok,” and Adolf Hitler in “Jojo Rabbit.” In 2019, he voiced IG-11 on the Disney+ show “The Mandalorian.”

Between 2007 and 2009, Taika directed four episodes of HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords,” which starred his college friends Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.

He also directed the band’s music videos for “Ladies of the World,” “Mutha’uckas,” and “Leggy Blonde,” which were in the episodes he directed. Waititi was named the “New Zealander of the Year” for 2017.