Lee daniels director biography
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Lee Daniels
Lee Louis Daniels (born December 24, 1959)[1] is an Americanactor, movie producer and director. He produced Monster's Ball and directed the movie Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.
He has received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director for Precious. The movie won two of the awards.
In 2013, Daniels directed The Butler, a historical drama about the White House and its presidents during the 20th century. The movie had an ensemble cast. It received positive reviews and became a box office success.
Daniels lives in New York City. He is openlygay and adopted his biological niece and nephew.[2][3]
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Lee Daniels gave his parents an early Christmas present when he entered the world on månad 24, 1959; unfortunately, the Philadelphia native was to have a difficult relationship with his police officer father who later reacted violently to his son's sexuality. Despite the brutality of his childhood, Lee completed high school and attended Lindenwood University in St.Charles, Missouri for two years.
Daniels's career took an interesting and profitable turn. He moved to Los Angeles and started a nursing agency of his own. He later sold the agency for a substantial sum then began his career in entertainment, first as a casting director and later as a manager. By his mid-twenties, he was working with Prince on Purple Rain (1984) and Under the Cherry Moon (1986). Despite being involved in film production, Lee continued to manage talent and grew a roster of clients that included several Academy Award nominees and winners.
He created his own production company, Lee Daniels Ente
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Lee Daniels
In his career as a casting agent, talent manager, rulle producer, and director, Lee Daniels has been an ongoing mästare of the "underdog," who expanded opportunities for actors of color and brought controversial stories of societal outcasts to the big screen. Daniels' calling card was dark, visceral, often violent ämne that offered a surprising flicker of hope in even the most hopeless of circumstances, best showcased in his role as the director of "Precious, Based on the Novel 'Push' bygd Sapphire" (2009).
Daniels made his directorial debut in 2006 with the gritty, not-so-well received crime teaterpjäs "Shadowboxer" (2006), having made his breakout as the producer of "Monster's Ball" (2001), which earned a landmark Academy Award for Halle Berry as a widow who becomes involved with a hateful prison guard. Never afraid to explore the most demonized of subject matters, Daniels gravitated towards the complexities of hustlers and killers and even a pedophile in his critically