Chelsea Winstanley Biography – Chelsea Winstanley Wiki
Chelsea Winstanley is a New Zealand film producer. She is best known for producing short films and documentaries which celebrate the Indigenous peoples. She also produced the films What We Do in the Shadows and Jojo Rabbit. In the 2022 Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, Winstanley was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the screen industry and Māori. She is the ex-wife of Taika Waititi a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian.
She has produced short films such as Meathead, Ebony Society, and Night Shift. In 2014, she co-produced What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. She also co-produced Te Whakarauora Tangata and a documentary about Merata Mita. She has Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi ancestry through her mother.
She won the 2014 SPADA Screen Industry Awards Independent Producer of the Year (shared with Taika Waititi). In 2015, she was the New Zealand Women in Film and Television’s Mana Wahine recipient at Wairoa’s Maori Film Festival. She directed the documentary Toi Tū Toi Ora in 2020.
Chelsea Winstanley Age
She was born between 1975/1976 in New Zealand. She has Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi ancestry through her mother.
Chelsea Winstanley Husband
She is currently unmarried following the end of her marriage with Taika Waititi. She married New Zealand director Taika Waititi in 2011. They have two daughters. The couple separated in 2018. Taika is now in a relationship with the British singer Rita Ora.
Chelsea Winstanley Children
She is a mother of three, a son, and two daughters. At age 20, she had a son, Maia Apaapa, whom she raised as a single mother. She also has two daughters with her ex-husband, Taika Waititi named Matewa Kiritapu Waititi, and Te Hinekāhu Waititi.
Chelsea Winstanley Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @chelseawinstanley.
