Amma Asante
September 13, 1969 (55 years old) in Lambeth, London, England, UK
Amma Asante MBE (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London to parents from Ghana. Her love for the film industry started when she received her first role in BBC's children's television drama series Grange Hill. Asante wrote and produced the 1998 BBC Two series Brothers and Sisters, starring David Oyelowo. She was a childhood friend of model Naomi Campbell, whom she met when they were seven years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amma Asante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2022 · Art That Made Us as Self - Writer & Director
- 2021 · Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking as Self
- 2014 · Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
- 1991 · The Best of Friends as The Black Girl in Search of God
- 1989 · Birds of a Feather as Sydnee
- 1989 · Birds of a Feather as Angela (voice)
- 1978 · Grange Hill as Cheryl Webb