Nnamdi Asomugha
Biography
Nnamdi Asomugha is a Nigerian-American actor, director and producer who spent 11 seasons as an NFL cornerback with the Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers, was a four-time All-Pro and retired in 2013. Born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and raised in Los Angeles, he began acting with television roles before producing and starring in Crown Heights (2017), the film that earned him Independent Spirit Award and NAACP Image Award nominations. He produced and starred in Sylvie's Love (2020), an Emmy nominee for Outstanding Television Movie, and appeared in The Good Nurse (2022). On stage he made his Broadway debut in A Soldier's Play (2020), and he made his directing debut with The Knife, which won him the Tribeca Film Festival award for Best New Narrative Director.
45years old
Turns 46 on July 6in 247 days
- Born Lafayette
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 10 years2012 to 2022
Every film, newest first
- 2022The Good NurseIMDb rating 6.8
- 2020Sylvie's LoveIMDb rating 6.8
- 2017Crown HeightsIMDb rating 6.7
- 2012Fire with FireIMDb rating 5.6
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First role
In 2020, Asomugha first appeared on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Soldier's Play, playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson. Denzel Washington had originated that part off-Broadway.
First role
Asomugha began his onscreen acting career with a role on The CW sitcom The Game. He later took parts in other television series, such as Friday Night Lights and the TNT drama Leverage.
Big break
Asomugha both produced and acted in Crown Heights, an Amazon Studios film. It premiered in the US Dramatic Category at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and took the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film.
First role
Asomugha's first stage role came in the Off-Broadway play Good Grief, staged at the Vineyard Theatre in 2018. That production earned a New York Times Critic's Pick.
A first
Asomugha got his first Emmy nomination for Sylvie's Love, a 2020 movie he produced and acted in, which was up for Outstanding Television Movie at the Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Films together
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Tobias LindholmDirector, 1 film, 2022
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All films by David Barrett
Eugene AsheDirector, 1 film, 2020
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