Nate parker biography

American actor and filmmaker

This article is about the American actor. For the English actor sometimes known as Nat Parker, see Nathaniel Parker.

Nate Parker (born November 18, 1979)^[1] is an American actor. He has appeared in Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon, and Pride.^[2] Parker's directorial debut feature film, The Birth of a Nation, in which he also starred, made history at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival when Fox Searchlight Pictures acquired the distribution rights for $17.5 million, breaking the record for the most paid for a Sundance Film Festival production, surpassing Little Miss Sunshine, which had been acquired by Searchlight for $10 million ten years earlier.^[3] The film was ultimately unsuccessful in wide release and did not receive acclaim, after rape allegations against Parker resurfaced.^[4]

Early life

Parker was born Taraji P.

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