---
name: "Jackie van Beek"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jackie-van-beek"
fi1m_id: "jackie-van-beek"
imdb_id: "nm1101310"
tmdb_id: 1286797
wikidata_id: "Q55070734"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-13T22:02:36.868217+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jackie van Beek

## Identity

Jackie van Beek

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jackie-van-beek
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jackie-van-beek
- **IMDb ID:** nm1101310
- **TMDB ID:** 1286797
- **Wikidata ID:** Q55070734
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_van_Beek, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55070734, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1101310/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1286797

Director. Born 1 January 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Wellington, New Zealand
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_van_Beek, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55070734, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1101310/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1286797

## Coming up

- *Zombucha!* (2026-11-19)

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Time Bandits*](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jackie van Beek is a New Zealand director, writer and actress. She studied contemporary dance and linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating in 1998, and began her career in theatre and short films before moving into features and television.

Her first feature, *The Inland Road* (2017), premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. She co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the comedy *The Breaker Upperers* (2018) with Madeleine Sami. Van Beek has directed episodes of *Wellington Paranormal* (2018), *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019) and *Time Bandits* (2024). She co-created the series *Educators* (2019) and the Australian adaptation of *The Office* (2024).

As an actress, she is known for her role in *What We Do in the Shadows* (2014) and appearances in *The Breaker Upperers* and *Nude Tuesday* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Time Bandits* (2024), Fi1m 62, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Zombucha!* (2026), Actor
- *Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant* (2026), as Ann
- *New Zealand Spy* (2026), series, as Ruth
- *Audrey* (2024), as Ronnie Lipsick
- *The Office* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
- *Time Bandits* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/time-bandits-2024.md)
- *Nude Tuesday* (2022), as Laura · Screenplay
- *Educators* (2019), series, as Robyn Duffy · Writer, Creator
- *What We Do in the Shadows* (2019), series, Director
- *Wellington Paranormal* (2018), series, Director
- *The Breaker Upperers* (2018), as Jen · Director, Writer
- *The Inland Road* (2017), Writer, Director
- *Funny Girls* (2015), series, as Pauline
- *800 Words* (2015), series, as Gloria
- *Coverband* (2014), series, as Stacey
- *What We Do in the Shadows* (2014), as Jackie
- *In Safe Hands* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Eagle vs Shark* (2007), as Burger Staff
- *Love Mussel* (2001), as Fiona Mathieson
- *Hope*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Jackie van Beek](https://film.one/media/person/6883497/gallery-e2178e966fe8.jpg) Jackie van Beek — Juneybear88, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Jackie_van_Beek_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jackie van Beek 2018](https://film.one/media/person/6883497/gallery-12bf5715916b.jpg) Jackie van Beek 2018 — The Cafe, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Jackie_van_Beek_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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