Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie (born 29 June, 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a musician, actor, producer, writer and comedian, best known for being half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Jemaine Clement.

McKenzie is a former member of The Black Seeds. He has released an album called Prototype as Video Kid and is a member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. McKenzie attended Clifton Terrace Model School (model in the sense of a standard school for training teachers; not a school for models), Wellington College and then Victoria University of Wellington where he met Jemaine Clement who was also studying film and theatre. Together they were members of So You're a Man. They later formed Flight of the Conchords.

As The Conchords they have toured internationally and released five records: Folk the World Tour in 2002, Grammy Award-winning The Distant Future in 2007, Grammy nominated Flight of the Conchords in 2008, I Told You I Was Freaky in 2009, and Live in London in 2019. The Conchords produced a six-part improvisational comedy radio program for the BBC and have appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show. After a successful appearance in 2005 on HBOs One Night Stand, the Conchords were offered their own 12-part HBO series Flight of the Conchords. Its first season ran from June to September 2007, and its second season premiered on HBO January 18, 2009.

As a solo artist McKenzie has released two studio albums: 2022's Songs Without Jokes and 2025's Freak Out City. He's also composed songs for numerous movie soundtracks including The Muppets (2011), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), Thelma the Unicorn (2024), Plankton the Movie (2025) and A Minecraft Movie (2025).

Bret won the Oscar for Best Original Song for Man Or Muppet, from 2011's The Muppets, at the 84th Academy Awards.

McKenzie appeared in the first film in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, as a silent extra in the Council of Rivendell scene. His appearance achieved some internet notoriety, leading to it being dubbed by fans as "Figwit" - an acronym for "Frodo is great...who is THAT?!?". The viral popularity of the character led to Bret's character appearing in the third film in the trilogy, The Return of the King, this time given a line of dialogue and a listing in the credits as "Elf Escort". He also appeared in the first film in Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy as a different elf named Lindir.

Along with fellow Conchord Jemaine, McKenzie was featured as one of 2008's "100 Sexiest People" in a special edition of the Australian magazine Who. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.