Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1969-09-13
Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK
Amma Asante
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
Grange Hill
as Cheryl Webb
Birds of a Feather
as Sydnee
Birds of a Feather
as Angela (voice)
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
as Self
Art That Made Us
as Self - Writer & Director
The Best of Friends
as The Black Girl in Search of God
Drunk history: Black Stories
as Narrator