Jemaine Clement Net Worth 2024

What is Jemaine Clement’s Net Worth?

Jemaine Clement is a New Zealand musician, actor, comedian, author, director, and producer who has a net worth of $7 million. Clement is greatest generally known as a member of Flight of the Conchords, which he and fellow Conchord Bret McKenzie have described because the “fourth-most-popular folks duo in New Zealand.” The pair starred within the critically-acclaimed HBO sequence “Flight of the Conchords” from 2007 to 2009, they usually have launched two studio albums, two reside albums, and an EP.

Jemaine has greater than 60 appearing credit to his title, together with the movies “Dinner for Schmucks” (2010), “What We Do within the Shadows” (2014), “Muppets Most Wanted” (2014), and “People Places Things” (2015) and the TV sequence “Divorce” (2016) and “Legion” (2017–2019). He has lent his voice to a number of animated tasks, resembling “Rio” (2011), “Rio 2” (2014), “Moana” (2016), “TripTank” (2014–2016), “Kiri and Lou” (2019–current), and “Tig n’ Seek” (2020-present). Clement has additionally served as a author and producer on “Flight of the Conchords,” the “What We Do within the Shadows” movie, the “What We Do within the Shadows” TV sequence (2019–current), and the “Wellington Paranormal” TV sequence (2018–current). He co-directed the “What We Do within the Shadows” movie with Taika Waititi, and he has directed episodes of “Wellington Paranormal” and the “What We Do within the Shadows” sequence.

Early Life

Jemaine Clement was born Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement on January 10, 1974, in Masterton, New Zealand. He grew up within the Wairarapa space with a Māori mom and two brothers, and he graduated from Makoura College. Jemaine then moved to Wellington and enrolled at Victoria University of Wellington to review movie and drama. He met Taika Waititi there, and the 2 shaped the comedy troupes The Humourbeasts and So You’re a Man collectively. The Humourbeasts created a stage present referred to as “The Untold Tales of Maui,” and once they toured New Zealand with it in 2004, they gained the Billy T Award, the nation’s most prestigious comedy honor. Clement’s future Flight of the Conchords bandmate Bret McKenzie was a member of So You’re a Man, and the 2 had been roommates at Victoria University

Music Career

Jemaine Clement and McKenzie shaped Flight of the Conchords in 1998, they usually first carried out on TV in May 2000 on the Wellington present “Newtown Salad.” They launched the reside album “Folk the World Tour” in November 2002, and adopted it with the EP “The Distant Future” in August 2007. The band’s 2008 self-titled studio album was licensed 2× Platinum in New Zealand and reached #1 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart in addition to the U.S. “Billboard” Alternative Albums, Comedy Albums, Independent Albums, and Top Rock Albums charts. Bret and Jemaine then launched the 2009 studio album “I Told You I Was Freaky” and 2019’s “Live in London” (which first aired as an HBO comedy particular). They additionally had a comedy radio sequence on BBC Radio 2 in 2005, they usually have carried out on “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” and HBO’s “One Night Stand.” Clement and McKenzie launched the charity single “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)” in 2012 to profit the New Zealand group Cure Kids, and in 2010, they voiced performing arts camp counselors on “The Simpsons” episode “Elementary School Musical.” Besides his work with Flight of the Conchords, Jemaine has carried out on the “Rio,” “Rio 2,” and “Muppets Most Wanted” soundtracks.

Acting Career

In 2002, Jemaine starred within the New Zealand movie “Tongan Ninja,” which he co-wrote with director Jason Stutter. The two would work collectively once more in 2009’s “Diagnosis: Death” and 2010’s “Predicament.” In 2007, Clement appeared within the Taika Waititi movie “Eagle vs Shark” and started starring on “Flight of the Conchords” with Bret McKenzie and fellow New Zealander Rhys Darby. The sequence was nominated for quite a few awards, and in 2019, “The Guardian” ranked it #65 on its “100 greatest TV reveals of the twenty first century” record.

Jemaine obtained an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his efficiency in 2008’s “Gentlemen Broncos,” and in 2010, he co-starred with Paul Rudd and Steve Carell in “Dinner for Schmucks” and voiced Jerry the Minion in “Despicable Me,” which additionally starred Carell. Clement offered the voice of Nigel in 2011’s “Rio,” which earned him an Annie Award nomination for Voice Acting in a Feature Production, then he obtained a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Movie Villain for taking part in Boris the Animal in 2012’s “Men in Black 3.”

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In 2014, Jemaine starred as Vladislav within the award-winning vampire mockumentary “What We Do within the Shadows” and performed the Prison King in “Muppets Most Wanted,” which McKenzie labored on as a music supervisor and songwriter. He appeared within the 2015 movies “Don Verdean” and “People Places Things” and voiced Tamatoa within the 2016 Disney movie “Moana,” which earned Clement and his castmates a Behind the Voice Actors Award for Best Vocal Ensemble in a Feature Film. In 2016, he guest-starred on Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer” and “Another Period” and launched the podcast “The Mysterious Secrets Of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium.” The following yr, he voiced Sauron in “The Lego Batman Movie,” appeared within the movies “Humor Me” and “Brad’s Status,” guest-starred on the TBS sequence “Wrecked,” and started enjoying Oliver Bird on FX’s “Legion.” Clement then starred in 2018’s “An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn” and “The Festival,” 2019’s “Patrick,” and 2020’s “I Used to Go Here.” He co-created the TVNZ 2 sequence “Wellington Paranormal” with Taika Waititi in 2018 and created the FX sequence “What We Do within the Shadows” in 2019; he additionally composed the “Wellington Paranormal” theme music. In 2019, Jemaine was solid as Dr. Ian Garvin within the sequels to the blockbuster movie “Avatar.”

Personal Life

Jemaine married playwright and theatre actress Miranda Manasiadis in August 2008. Two months later, they welcomed son Sophocles Iraia in in New York City, the place Clement was filming Flight of the Conchords. They reportedly selected the title Sophocles as a result of it is the title of Miranda’s grandfather, and Iraia was chosen as a result of Jemaine is a descendant of Wairarapa chief Iraia Te Whaiti. When saying the beginning, New Zealand newspaper “The Dominion Post” said “Sophocles has been described as magnificently cute, together with his father’s lips.”

Awards and Nominations

Clement has been nominated for 3 Best Comedy Album Grammys with Flight of the Conchords, profitable for “The Distant Future” in 2008. He has earned 9 Primetime Emmy nominations, Outstanding Comedy Series for “What We Do within the Shadows” and eight for “Flight of the Conchords” (Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, Outstanding Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series). “Flight of the Conchords” additionally earned him an ASCAP Film and Television Music Award (Top Television Series) and three Writers Guild of America nominations (Episodic Comedy, New Series, and Comedy Series). Jemaine has additionally earned two Writers Guild of America nominations for the “What We Do within the Shadows” sequence.

The “What We Do within the Shadows” movie earned Clement awards from the “Fangoria” Chainsaw Awards, Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Hermosillo International Film Festival, Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Titanic International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Warsaw International Film Festival. He was named Best Actor for “People Places Things” on the 2016 River Bend Film Festival, and Flight of the Conchords gained New Zealand Music Awards for Album of the Year, Best Group, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, and International Achievement in 2008 and Highest Selling New Zealand Single for “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)” in 2013.