Name
Amma Asante
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1969-09-13 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK
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.
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- 1991 The Best of Friends as The Black Girl in Search of God
- 2014 Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
- 2021 Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking as Self
- 1978 Grange Hill ( 48 episodes ) as Cheryl Webb
- 2022 Art That Made Us ( 1 episode ) as Self - Writer & Director
- 1989 Birds of a Feather ( 1 episode ) as Sydnee
- 1989 Birds of a Feather ( 1 episode ) as Angela (voice)
- 2021 Drunk history: Black Stories ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
