Actor

Nia DaCosta

Directing

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

3.1

Moderate attention

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Movies: 9Series: 3Crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 1795072

IMDb ID: nm4804442

Known for: Directing

Born: November 8, 1989

Age: 36

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2013 - 2026

Years active: 14

Average TMDB rating: 6

Wikidata: Q61995088

Other jobs

Director (6)Additional Camera (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut, Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival. After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series Top Boy in 2019, DaCosta became the first Black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film Candyman (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with The Marvels (2023), which, despite being a box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman.