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Ali LeRoi
Ali LeRoi is the Emmy Award-winning executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy Everybody Hates Chris, a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian…
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Ali LeRoi is the Emmy Award-winning executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy Everybody Hates Chris, a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian Chris Rock. He is a Golden Globe nominee, a 2007 NAACP Image Award winner for best writer in a comedy series, as well as a winner of the 2007 AFI TV Program of the Year Award. LeRoi served as a producer and writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which he won an Emmy, a Cable Ace Award, and received five Emmy Award nominations. He is an NAACP Awards Best Director nominee for his work on Everybody Hates Chris, and has directed segments for the 77th Annual Academy Awards, as well as for the Orlando Jones Show. Major motion picture credits include producing and co-writing Head of State and Down to Earth, as well as producing cult-favorite, Pootie Tang. Recent projects include producing, writing and directing, the television adaptation of Ice Cube’s hit film Are We There Yet? for TBS, as well as developing a project at HBO with music industry legend Irv Gotti, and producing a slate of animation and sitcom projects for television and cable with film star and business partner Orlando Jones, under their newly created F. Masse Media banner. Originally from Chicago, LeRoi currently lives in Los Angeles.
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2024
Everybody Still Hates Chris
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Lil Rel Howery: I Said It. Y'all Thinking It.
Movie Director
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2021
American Refugee
Movie Director
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2021
The Game
TV show Director
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2021
Turner & Hooch
TV show Director
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2019
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
Movie Director
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2014
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show
Movie Self
- 2012
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2010
Are We There Yet?
TV show Producer
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2007
Are We There Yet?: World Adventure
TV show Director
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2005
Everybody Hates Chris
TV show Producer
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2003
Head of State
Movie Crazy Hostile Dreadlock Voter
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2001
Pootie Tang
Movie Producer
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2001
Down to Earth
Movie Crazy Hostile Dreadlock Guy
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1998
Midnight Sun
Movie Nathan
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1997
The Chris Rock Show
TV show Writer
More credits
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show Writer
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1975
Saturday Night Live
TV show Writer
