Jackie van Beek

Director

January 1, 1976 (50 years)

Wellington, New Zealand

Biography

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.

Filmography

8.0

What We Do in the Shadows

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.

6.2

Time Bandits

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.

6.9

Wellington Paranormal

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.

5.6

The Office

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.

5.2

The Breaker Upperers

Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.

N/A

Hope

A romantic comedy about the crazy lengths a woman in her mid-30s is willing to go to when she discovers the perfect man.

4.4

The Inland Road

An unconventional love story between an antisocial teenager, a Scotsman and a five-year-old girl.

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