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Lee Tamahori was born on 17 June, 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a New Zealand film director (born 1950). Discover Lee Tamahori's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June, 1950
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1950

Warren Lee Tamahori (born 17 June 1950) is a New Zealand film director.

1970

He moved into the film industry in the late 1970s, initially getting in the door by working for nothing, then working as a boom operator for Television New Zealand, and on the feature films: Skin Deep, Goodbye Pork Pie, and Bad Blood.

1980

In the early 1980s Pork Pie director Geoff Murphy promoted Tamahori to become an assistant director on Utu, and he subsequently worked as first assistant director on The Silent One, Murphy's The Quiet Earth, Came a Hot Friday and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.

1986

In 1986 Tamahori co-founded production company Flying Fish, which specialised in making commercials.

Tamahori made his name with a series of high-profile television commercials, including one awarded 'Commercial of the Decade'.

1994

He is known for directing the films Once Were Warriors (1994), Along Came a Spider (2001) and Die Another Day (2002).

Tamahori was born in Wellington, New Zealand.

He is of Māori ancestry on his father's side and British on his mother's.

Tamahori grew up in Tawa, a northern suburb of Wellington, North Island, New Zealand.

Educated at Tawa School and Tawa College, he began his career as a commercial artist and photographer.

Tamahori had directed a number of shorter dramas for television before he made his feature film debut in 1994 with Once Were Warriors, a gritty depiction of a violent Māori family.

The film had problems finding funding, but it went on to break box office records in New Zealand.

Overseas it sold to many countries and won rave reviews from Time magazine, Village Voice, and The Melbourne Age, with Time and The Age naming it one of the ten best films of the year.

1996

Tamahori moved to Hollywood and directed the period thriller Mulholland Falls (1996), although this was not received well critically or commercially.

1997

This was followed by the successful wilderness film The Edge (1997), which starred Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin and Die Another Day (2002), the twentieth and most successful James Bond film made up until that point.

2001

He also directed an episode of The Sopranos and the thriller Along Came a Spider (2001).

2002

Tamahori's next film was the sequel to XXX (2002), titled XXX: State of the Union (2005), starring Ice Cube and Willem Dafoe; he replaced the original film's director, Rob Cohen.

2006

In January 2006, Tamahori was arrested on Santa Monica Boulevard when, according to Los Angeles police, he entered an undercover policeman's car while wearing a woman's dress and offered to perform a sex act in exchange for money.

In February 2006, he pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court to a charge of criminal trespass in return for prosecutors dropping charges of prostitution and loitering.

He was placed on 36 months' probation and ordered to perform 15 days of community service.

2007

In 2007 he directed Next, a science fiction action film based on The Golden Man, a short story by Philip K. Dick.

The film starred Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Jessica Biel.

2011

The drama The Devil's Double starring Dominic Cooper was released in 2011, a dramatisation of Latif Yahia's claims that he was forced to become body double to Uday Hussein, son of Saddam.

2012

In 2012 Tamahori was attached to the action epic Emperor, about a young woman seeking revenge for the execution of her father by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

2014

Adrien Brody was cast in 2014 as the Emperor opposite Sophie Cookson as the young woman, also cast in 2014.

2015

In 2015 Tamahori directed Mahana, his first feature made in New Zealand since Once Were Warriors.

The rural-set drama was based on the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, and starred Temuera Morrison, whom he had earlier directed in Once Were Warriors.

2016

The movie was released in New Zealand in March 2016, after debuting at the Berlin Film Festival.

Tamahori has been married twice and has two sons, one from each marriage.

2017

The film was finished and screened at Cannes in 2017 but its release has been by legal challenges.