Director

Cory Finley

Directing

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

2.9

Moderate attention

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 1All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1620987

IMDb ID: nm8083973

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2018 - 2025

Years active: 8

Average TMDB rating: 6.66

Wikidata: Q50584029

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Writer (2)Executive Producer (1)Screenplay (1)Story (1)Thanks (1)

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Biography

Cory Finley is a St. Louis-born, Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright, and director. Finley wrote and directed the black comedy film Thoroughbreds, a feature film adapted from his play of the same name which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. He also directed the true crime dramedy film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, which premiered on HBO and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in 2020. He is a member of the Obie-winning Youngblood playwrights group at Ensemble Studio Theater, has received a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for playwriting, and was the inaugural recipient of the Gurney Playwrights Fund for his play The Feast at The Flea Theater.

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