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Known For
Directing
Birthday
September 13, 1969
Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Амма Асанте
Amma Asante
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.5
Self - Writer & Director
Art That Made Us
2022
6.2
Self
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021
🎬
0.0
Narrator
Drunk history: Black Stories
2021
6.5
Self
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
1.0
The Black Girl in Search of God
The Best of Friends
1991
6.1
Sydnee
Birds of a Feather
1989
6.1
Angela (voice)
Birds of a Feather
1989
6.7
Cheryl Webb
Grange Hill
1978
Credits
Art That Made Us
as Self - Writer & Director
2022
5.5
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
as Self
2021
6.2
🎬
Drunk history: Black Stories
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self
2014
6.5
The Best of Friends
as The Black Girl in Search of God
1991
1.0
Birds of a Feather
as Sydnee
1989
6.1
Birds of a Feather
as Angela (voice)
1989
6.1
Grange Hill
as Cheryl Webb
1978
6.7