Bret McKenzie

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Bret McKenzie at the Muppets Most Wanted film premiere in March 2014

Bret McKenzie ONZM (born June 29, 1976 in Wellington , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand actor , musician , comedian and Oscar winner. He is the son of New Zealand actor Peter McKenzie . He received worldwide attention as a member of the comedy duo Flight of the Conchords alongside Jemaine Clement and as a composer for the movie The Muppets .

Life

McKenzie was a musician with the bands The Black Seeds and Karnivool . He released the album Prototype under the pseudonym Video Kid . He is also a member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra.

He had the greatest success as a member of Flight of the Conchords . The duo has toured internationally and has already released four CDs:

  • Folk the World Tour (2002)
  • The Distant Future (2007), Grammy Award winner
  • Flight of the Conchords (2008), Grammy nominated
  • I Told You I Was Freaky (2009)

The Conchords have also produced a six-part comedy show for the BBC radio program and have appeared on numerous talk shows such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Late Show with David Letterman .

Together with HBO , the Conchords produced 22 episodes in 2 seasons of the television series Flight of the Conchords .

Bret McKenzie can be seen as an extra in the first and third part of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy by Peter Jackson as an Elf . His father is the actor Peter McKenzie , who plays King Elendil in the same film adaptation .

In the 22nd season of The Simpsons , McKenzie spoke to a school psychologist.

Bret McKenzie composed a total of five songs for the movie The Muppets . McKenzie's Man or Muppet won an Oscar for best theme song in 2012. He also composed the music for the sequel Muppets Most Wanted , together with Christophe Beck .

In The Hobbit (2012/2013) he took on the role of the elf Lindir.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bret McKenzie . Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  2. ^ Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra . Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ Alex Strachan : Gleeful over Glee: Cory Monteith and Glee kids to appear on The Simpsons. . In: canada.com . Postmedia Network , August 2, 2010, accessed June 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME McKenzie, Bret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Video kid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington , New Zealand