Bret McKenzie

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie born 29 June 1976 in Wellington New Zealand is a comedian actor musician and producer best known for being one half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement In the 2000s the duos comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an oftlauded American television series which aired for two seasons on HBO Active since 1998 the duo released their most recent comedy special Live in London in 2018 Primarily a musician McKenzie has worked as a songwriter and music supervisor for film and television since the 2010s He served as music supervisor for two Muppet films The Muppets 2011 and Muppets Most Wanted 2014 the former of which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song Man or Muppet In the 2000s McKenzie was part of reggae fusion band The Black Seeds and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra and in the 2010s he began performing solo material His debut album Songs Without Jokes was released in August 2022 As an actor he portrayed elves in Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies in the first he remained unnamed with fans naming him Figwit a character originally cast as an extra who gained attention thanks to the trilogys fan community He later appears in The Hobbit as Lindir a minor character who originally appears in the book of The Fellowship of the Ring