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Director

Dee Rees

Directing

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Directed credits

12

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Regular directing credits.

TMDB popularity

0.6

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 5All crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 472630

IMDb ID: nm2011696

Known for: Directing

Born: February 7, 1977

Age: 49

Place of birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2024

Years active: 18

Average TMDB rating: 6.76

Wikidata: Q5249943

Also known as

Diandrea Rees • Diandra Rees

Frequent jobs

Director (12)Executive Producer (3)Writer (2)

Biography

Diandrea Rees (born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director. She is known for her feature films Pariah (2011), Bessie (2015), Mudbound (2017), and The Last Thing He Wanted (2020). Rees has also written and directed episodes for television series, including Empire, When We Rise, and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. Rees is the first African-American woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mudbound. She has also received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film for Bessie. Reeds received a United States Artists Fellowship in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dee Rees, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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