Taika Waititi is of Māori and mostly Russian Jewish descent. His father was a Māori artist, and his mother, who worked as a teacher, was of mostly Russian Jewish descent. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and he grew up mostly with his mother in Wellington, New Zealand, with many visits to his father’s home in Raukokore.
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