About Rhys Darby
Rhys Montague Darby (born 21 March 1974) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. He is known for his energetic physical comedy routines, telling stories accompanied with mime and sound effects, for example machinery and animals. He was nominated for the Billy T Award in 2001 and 2002; he won the 2012 Fred (Dagg) Award for best NZ show at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Darby is best known for playing Murray Hewitt, the band manager of Flight of the Conchords in the television series, a role he originally played in the BBC radio series under the name Brian Nesbit. He has appeared in films including Yes Man (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Love Birds (2011), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Trolls (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Guns Akimbo (2019), Relax, I'm from the Future (2022), Uproar (2023), and Next Goal Wins (2023). From March 2022 to October 2023, he starred as Stede Bonnet alongside Taika Waititi in the HBO Max period romantic comedy series Our Flag Means Death. == Early life == Darby was born on 21 March 1974 in Auckland and grew up in the eastern Auckland suburb of Pakuranga. He attended Edgewater College in Auckland. A former soldier, he left the New Zealand Army in 1994 and began studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1996 he formed a comedy duo, Rhysently Granted, with Grant Lobban.
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