Niki Caro Biography, Age, Height, Family, Husband and Mulan

Niki Caro Biography

Niki Caro was born as Nikola Jean Caro. She is a Zealand film director and screenwriter. She is well known by her film Whale Rider where she won a number of awards at international film festivals. She has also directed the 2020 live-action version of Disney's Mulan, making her the second female and the second New Zealand director hired by Disney to direct a film budgeted at over $100 million.

Niki Caro Age

Niki Caro was born as Nikola Jean Caro on 20 September 1966 in Wellington, New Zealand. She is 57 years old as of 2023. Niki celebrates all of his birthdays on the 20th of September every year.

Niki Caro Height

She stands a height of 5 feet 8 inches (5.6 meters tall) and weighs 65 kilograms. She has dark hair and dark black eyes.

Niki Caro Family

Niki Caro Education

She joined Kadimah College,  Auckland, then Diocesan School for Girls, where she received an alumni award. After there she graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.  In 1988 and received a Postgraduate Diploma in Film from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Niki Caro Husband

She is a married woman. Caro got married to Andrew Lister who is an architect. The two are blessed to have two daughters Tui and Pearl. Their first daughter was born shortly after the success of Whale Rider. 

Niki Caro Kids

Caro is a loving and caring mother. She is lucky to have two beautiful daughters Tui and Pearl. Their first daughter was born shortly after the success of Whale Rider. 

Niki Caro Movies

• Memory & Desire
• Whale Rider
• North Country
• A Heavenly Vintage
• McFarland, USA
• The Zookeeper's Wife
• Mulan
• Untitled The Wuzzles film

Niki Caro Mulan

In 2071 she was hired to direct  Disney's live-action adaptation of Mulan and then Untitled film based on The Wuzzles. She is the second woman at the studio to direct a film budgeted at over $100 million, after Ava DuVernay (2018's A Wrinkle in Time), and the second New Zealander, after Taika Waititi.

Niki Caro Whale Rider

Whale Rider is about a Māori girl that has to stand up against the other men and her grandfather in the tribe to show she can be as much of a leader as the boys who were being trained to be leaders. Caro argues that Whale Rider is more about leadership than sexism because the Māori are also profoundly matriarchal.