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Jackie van Beek

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  • Writer
  • Director
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Jackie van Beek
A suburban couple goes to a new-age retreat as a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Their path to reconnection is riddled with hilarity and humiliation as they seek to find themselves and each other.
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Nude Tuesday (2022)
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Jackie is a New Zealand actor/writer/director/producer.

With a background in comedy theatre, Jackie premiered her first feature The Inland Road in competition at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. Her second feature The Breaker Upperers (created with Madeleine Sami) premiered to rave reviews at SXSW and opened the 2018 Sydney Film Festival. Nude Tuesday (created with Armagan Ballantyne) premiered at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, received a 5 Star review in the Guardian and played as the Central Gala film at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Jackie co-created the improvised TVNZ series Educators which was dubbed by the NZ Herald as "morbidly hysterical...and funny as f**k". The third season won Silver for Best Streaming Comedy at New York Festivals.

As an actor she is best known as the desperate familiar in Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's What We Do in the Shadows, cynical heartbreaker Jen in The Breaker Upperers and neurotic gibberish-speaking Laura in Nude Tuesday.

She has directed on television series - Wellington Paranormal, What We Do In The Shadows and Time Bandits. And is the set up director for The Office Australia.
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  • Awards
    • 4 wins & 5 nominations

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Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, and Ana Scotney in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Jackie van Beek
Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, and Ana Scotney at an event for The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek at an event for The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)

Known for

Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
The Breaker Upperers
5.9
  • Jen
  • 2018
The Inland Road (2017)
The Inland Road
6.0
  • Writer
  • 2017
Taika Waititi, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Jemaine Clement, Jonny Brugh, and Stu Rutherford in What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
What We Do in the Shadows
7.6
  • Jackie(as Jackie Van Beek)
  • 2014
Mike Minogue and Karen O'Leary in Wellington Paranormal (2018)
Wellington Paranormal
7.6
TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Actress

  • Coverband
    • Stacey
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Nude Tuesday (2022)
    Nude Tuesday
    • Laura
    • wife
    • 2022
  • The Drawing Show (2019)
    The Drawing Show
    • Carol (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2020
  • Educators (2019)
    Educators
    • Robyn Duffy
    • TV Series
    • 2019–2020
  • Golden Boy (2019)
    Golden Boy
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • The Vloggingtons (2018)
    The Vloggingtons
    • Marvyn's Mum (2021)
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2018
  • Jackie van Beek, Kimberley Crossman, Brynley Stent, Rose Matafeo, and Laura Daniel in Funny Girls (2015)
    Funny Girls
    • Pauline
    • Various
    • TV Series
    • 2015–2018
  • Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
    The Breaker Upperers
    • Jen
    • 2018
  • 800 Words (2015)
    800 Words
    • Gloria
    • TV Series
    • 2016–2017
  • Terry Teo (2016)
    Terry Teo
    • News Reporter
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Short Poppies (2014)
    Short Poppies
    • Elise
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Taika Waititi, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Jemaine Clement, Jonny Brugh, and Stu Rutherford in What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
    What We Do in the Shadows
    • Jackie (as Jackie Van Beek)
    • 2014
  • Uphill (2013)
    Uphill
    • Tramper
    • Short
    • 2013
  • The Gondola
    • Woman
    • Short
    • 2007
  • Carl Bland, Danielle Cormack, Rose McIver, Patrick Wilson, Jaxin Hall, Hannah Tasker-Poland, and Mark Davies in Rude Awakenings (2007)
    Rude Awakenings
    • Linda
    • TV Series
    • 2007
  • Loren Taylor and Jemaine Clement in Eagle vs Shark (2007)
    Eagle vs Shark
    • Burger Staff
    • 2007

Writer

  • Nude Tuesday (2022)
    Nude Tuesday
    • screenplay
    • story by
    • 2022
  • Educators (2019)
    Educators
    • Writer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
    The Breaker Upperers
    • Writer
    • 2018
  • The Inland Road (2017)
    The Inland Road
    • Writer
    • 2017
  • Uphill (2013)
    Uphill
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2013
  • In Safe Hands
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Little Red Riding Hood
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Go the Dogs (2011)
    Go the Dogs
    • Writer
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Just Like the Others
    • screenplay
    • Short
    • 2009
  • One Shoe Short
    • writer
    • Short
    • 2008

Director

  • Time Bandits
    • Director
    • Pre-production
    • TV Series
  • Mike Minogue and Karen O'Leary in Wellington Paranormal (2018)
    Wellington Paranormal
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2018–2022
  • Kayvan Novak, Mark Proksch, Matt Berry, Harvey Guillén, and Natasia Demetriou in What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
    What We Do in the Shadows
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek in The Breaker Upperers (2018)
    The Breaker Upperers
    • Director
    • 2018
  • The Inland Road (2017)
    The Inland Road
    • Director
    • 2017
  • The Lawnmower Bandit
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2015
  • Uphill (2013)
    Uphill
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2013
  • In Safe Hands
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Little Red Riding Hood
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Go the Dogs (2011)
    Go the Dogs
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2011
  • Just Like the Others
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2009
  • One Shoe Short
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2008
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Personal details

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    Jackie van Beek & Madeleine Sami have the same birthday.
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      Jackie van Beek was born in10 May 1976 in Wellington ,New Zealand

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