Jackie van Beek has built a career as a New Zealand director whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. The credit list stands at 8 titles. If one credit has to stand in for the rest, it is 'The Breaker Upperers'.
Jackie van Beek
Director · Actress
50 years (Jan 1, 1976)Wellington, New Zealand
Jackie van Beek has built a career as a New Zealand director whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. The credit list stands at 8 titles. If one credit has to stand in for the rest, it is 'The Breaker Upperers'.
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.