Amma Asante
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.
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Acting
TV
Grange Hill
as Cheryl Webb
1978
TV
Birds of a Feather
as Sydnee
1989
TV
Birds of a Feather
as Angela (voice)
1989
Movie
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self
2014
Movie
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
as Self
2021
Movie
The Best of Friends
as The Black Girl in Search of God
1991
TV
Art That Made Us
as Self - Writer & Director
2022
Drunk history: Black Stories
as Narrator
2021