Director

Rick Famuyiwa

Directing

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 3All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 51866

IMDb ID: nm0266622

Known for: Directing

Born: June 18, 1973

Age: 52

Place of birth: USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1996 - 2024

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 7.14

Wikidata: Q7331376

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Director (10)Executive Producer (3)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and television director. He is best known for the films The Wood(1999), Brown Sugar (2002), and Dope (2015), as well as for his work on the television series The Mandalorian, for which he directed six episodes and served as an executive producer for the third season. His films have been nominated for or won multiple awards, including in 2008, when he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for the film Talk To Me (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rick Famuyiwa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.