John Ridley

John Ridley was born on Oct 01, 1964 in USA. John Ridley's big-screen debut came with Cold Around the Heart directed by John Ridley in 1997. John Ridley is known for 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup and Dwight Henry as Uncle Abram. John Ridley has got 37 awards and 45 nominations so far. The most recent award John Ridley achieved is Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The upcoming new movie John Ridley plays is Needle in a Timestack which will be released on Oct 14, 2021.

John Ridley is the author of seven published novels, the most recent, What Fire Cannot Burn from Warner Books and The Drift from Knopf. His first novel, Stray Dogs, was made into the feature film U Turn - Ici commence l'enfer (1997) directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. Additionally, Ridley wrote the screenplays for the films Opération funky (2002) and Cold Around the Heart (1997) and wrote the story for Les Rois du désert (1999).He is a playwright as well and in 2005 produced the world premiere of his first play, Ten Thousand Years. Ridley is also a commentator for National Public Radio and a regular contributor to California Connected (2002), an award-winning, news magazine which airs throughout California on 12 Public Television stations. He was the host of Movie Club with John Ridley (2004) on AMC, a unique movie review program with a panel of critics.Ridley also wrote, directed, and produced the popular TV show, Barbershop (2005) formerly on Showtime.