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Date of Birth
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29-June-1976
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Place of Birth
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Wellington
(New Zealand, Wellington Region, Realm of New Zealand)
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Nationality
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New Zealand
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Also know as
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The Rhymenoceros, Video Kid, McKenzie, Bret, Fllight of the Conchords, Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, Rhymenoceros, Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, Figwit, Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, ONZM, ë¸Œë › 맥켄지, 브랫 맥켄지
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Profession
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Screenwriter, Actor, Television Producer, Musician, Comedian, Lyricist, Composer
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Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie, ONZM is a New Zealand comedian, actor, Academy Award-winning musician and producer, best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement. McKenzie served as music supervisor for the 2011 film The Muppets, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Man or Muppet".
As an actor, he is known for portraying two different characters in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, respectively: in the first he portrays Figwit, one of the most prominent characters of the film to be an original one and not based on Tolkien's works, and in The Hobbit portrays Lindir, a small character who originally appears in The Fellowship of the Ring book.
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