Registry of Existential Status
Service update: Form M-3 is temporarily unavailable. Reclassifications back to “person” may take longer than usual.

Check the current status of a public figure

Maybe they didn't die, or were never alive. The Registry can tell you where they are, what they currently are, and how confident it is that they exist.

Famous people only. The Registry does not hold records on private individuals, minors or reality television personalities.

Status record

Taika Waititi Film director

LIBRARY VAN REVERSES, APOLOGISES TO HEDGE

"The books are fine, the rocks are the problem," says a woman from the Wellington mobile library rota

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Taika Waititi peels potatoes at a Florida trailer park, deadpan, as a car alarm sounds, narrating each one softly like a gentle rock creature.
Location
A lay-by outside Waihi, between the 'Boy' farmhouse and a very patient sheep
Currently
Mobile library driver, reluctantly narrating the Dewey sections
Last confirmed sighting
Parked outside a Wilderpeople bush track, engine idling, shelf four rattling
Observations
Can be heard apologising to a hedge in a voice made entirely of gravel.

He now drives a mobile library on a Tuesday and Thursday loop of six villages. The van has a crooked handbrake and an unusually mellow passenger seat, which he describes as 'a bit of a rock'. Borrowers say he stamps each book with a small, sorrowful nod.

"I run the Thursday stop at the allotments," said Janet, a lollipop lady. "He handed me a poetry book and said, in a very soft voice, 'This one is majestical.' Then he reversed into a hedge and apologised to it for ten minutes."

Late fees in the district have dropped to nothing, as nobody wants to disappoint him. Children now return books with their own short rhyming reviews, and the allotment society has formed a quiet queue beside the van. Local hedges have been told they are doing very well.

Guidance for the public

Return books on time and speak to any hedges kindly.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 16 August 1975. Source: Wikidata

E&OE. The Registry accepts no liability for misclassification, temporal displacement or loss of personhood arising from this record. Photographs are computer-generated approximations and almost guaranteed to show a different person entirely.