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Amma Asante
Lambeth, London, England, UK
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…
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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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2025
Smillas Gespür für Schnee
TV show Co-Executive Producer
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2022
Art That Made Us
TV show Self - Writer & Director
- 2021
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2021
Drunk history: Black Stories
TV show Narrator
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2020
Mrs. America
TV show Director
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2018
Where Hands Touch
Movie Director
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2017
The Handmaid's Tale
TV show Director
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2016
A United Kingdom
Movie Director
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2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Movie Self
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2013
Belle
Movie Director
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2004
A Way of Life
Movie Director
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1991
The Best of Friends
Movie The Black Girl in Search of God
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1989
Birds of a Feather
TV show Sydnee
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1978
Grange Hill
TV show Cheryl Webb
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Billion Dollar Spy
Movie Director
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London, I Love You
Movie Director
