Portrait of Amma Asante

Amma Asante

Directing

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amma Asante, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: September 13, 1969

Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, UK

Filmography

2022
Art That Made Us

as Self - Writer & Director

1991
The Best of Friends

as The Black Girl in Search of God

1989
1989
Birds of a Feather

as Angela (voice)

1978
Grange Hill

as Cheryl Webb