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Jordan Peele
Using horror to explore race and social anxiety in Get Out, Us and Nope.
Get Out · Us
- Born
- 21 February 1979
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
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Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele is an American director, writer and former sketch-comedy performer.
Early life
New York upbringing
Grew up in Manhattan and developed an interest in performance.
Comedy training
Studied at Sarah Lawrence before pursuing improvisational comedy.
Career
- 2003–2008
MADtv
Built a television comedy career.
- 2012–2015
Key & Peele
Co-created the sketch series with Keegan-Michael Key.
- 2017
Directing debut
Get Out became a major critical and commercial success.
- 2019 onward
Further films
Directed Us and Nope and expanded his producing work.
Selected work
Get Out
Turned a visit to a girlfriend’s family into racial horror.
Us
Used doubles to explore identity and exclusion.
Nope
Connected spectacle, exploitation and a mysterious aerial threat.
Beyond directing
Monkeypaw Productions
Founded a production company developing films and television.
Family
Married comedian Chelsea Peretti in 2016.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Academy Awards: 2018 ceremony ↗Photo: Daniel Benavides from Austin, TX. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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