Director

Amma Asante

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 2All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1193597

IMDb ID: nm1392994

Known for: Directing

Born: September 13, 1969

Age: 56

Place of birth: Lambeth, London, England, UK

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1978 - 2022

Years active: 45

Average TMDB rating: 7.13

Wikidata: Q4747087

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Амма Асанте

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Biography

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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