Jackie is a New Zealand actress, writer and director best known for The Breaker Upperers, a buddy comedy that she co-wrote, directed and starred in with Madeleine Sami. Her first feature film, The Inland Road, premiered in competition at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. She played Jackie, the desperate familiar, in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's What We Do in the Shadows and now directs on two of the film's spin-offs: Wellington Paranormal and the Shadows FX series.
Self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie has given her daughter Audrey everything, so when Audrey selfishly falls into a coma, Ronnie has no choice but to keep their dreams alive by assuming her identity.
Release Date:2024-11-07
Character:Ronnie Lipsick
Vote Count:5
Hannah Howard is the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that her branch will be shut down and everyone will go remote, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can't keep in order to keep her "work family" together.
Release Date:2024-10-18
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:29
Eleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.
Release Date:2024-07-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:91
When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals, helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?
Release Date:2022-06-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:Laura
Vote Count:17
Set behind the scenes of an ordinary Kiwi secondary school, following the hopelessly and hilariously inept people in charge of educating the next generation.
Release Date:2019-05-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Robyn Duffy
Episode Count:20
Vote Count:1
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Release Date:2019-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:788
New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.
Release Date:2018-07-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:86
Anika's on the loose again, ready to go deep and laugh hard with well-known Kiwis. Her infectious honesty opens the hearts of all she meets - and before they know it, they've shared their deepest secrets!
Release Date:2018-03-28
Character:Self
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:1
Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.
Release Date:2018-03-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Jen
Vote Count:218
An unconventional love story between an antisocial teenager, a Scotsman and a five-year-old girl.
Release Date:2017-02-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
A new sketch comedy show that is funny - and has girls! Featuring fast paced sketches that cover issues such as work, life, relationships and what to do when you’re being haunted by a photobombing ghost. Set on a fictional television show where a large group of men produce an all-female sketch show. Funny Girls is a combination of hilarious sketches linked together by a behind-the-scenes narrative often derived from misguided opinions on what women want.
Release Date:2015-10-23
Character:Pauline
Episode Count:18
Vote Count:1
A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a remote New Zealand seaside town. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids who just lost their mum, and now face an even more uncertain future. But the colourful and inquisitive locals ensure his dream of a fresh start does not go to plan.
Release Date:2015-09-15
Character:Gloria
Episode Count:15
Vote Count:21
A teenage girl is entrusted to return a very special item to her family for her grandmother’s funeral.
Release Date:2012-07-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A romantic comedy about the crazy lengths a woman in her mid-30s is willing to go to when she discovers the perfect man.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Twenty-something Matt Gibson had dreams of making it big in the music world with his brother Alex and then-girlfriend, Ivy. They head to L.A. to try their luck. However, things don't always turn out the way you plan and, while Ivy's music career flourishes, he soon finds himself back in New Zealand with his brother and another friend playing gigs as a covers band, 'The Silhouettes'.
Release Date:2014-09-25
Character:Stacey
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Release Date:2014-06-19
Character:Jackie
Vote Count:3590
Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.
Release Date:2007-07-15
Character:Burger Staff
Vote Count:299
In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck") has the properties of Viagra.
Release Date:2001-07-19
Character:Fiona Mathieson