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Antoine Fuqua
Birth at
19 January 1966
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Antoine Fuqua was born on May 30, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His childhood was spent in a terrible place. As a teenager, he found two bodies in the alley. After that, he had to recover his psyche for a year. This incident may have had an impact on his career. Fuqua Antoine is shooting thrillers. Studying at the university gave him great pleasure. The young man loved to play basketball and was fond of drawing. He wanted to be an engineer. In the early stages of his career, he was engaged in
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Antoine Fuqua was born on May 30, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
His childhood was spent in a terrible place. As a teenager, he found two bodies in the alley. After that, he had to recover his psyche for a year. This incident may have had an impact on his career. Fuqua Antoine is shooting thrillers.
Studying at the university gave him great pleasure. The young man loved to play basketball and was fond of drawing. He wanted to be an engineer.
In the early stages of his career, he was engaged in shooting video clips for popular artists. Antoine's services were used by Stevie Wonder, Tony Braxton and Prince. Fuqua won an MTV award for "Gangsta's Paradise". Later, he decided to try his hand at cinema. After filming the short film Exit, working at the Propaganda Films studio, creating the episode The Thief, Antoine debuted in the big Hollywood movie in 1998. He introduced to the public an action film called
Replacement killers with Mira Sorvino in the lead role. The film was produced by John Wu. The picture received both positive and negative reviews, but all critics noted the unusual visual range of the picture and style.
Two years later, Antoine began working on the thriller “On the Bait”, in 2001 the drama “Training Day” was released. The film turned out to be quite successful, the lead actor Denzel Washington received an Oscar, and Ethan Hawke, his partner, was nominated for the same award.
In 2003, Antoine directed a thriller.
Tears of the sun In which the main roles went to Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci. Antoine then took a short break in his career. And in 2007, he started working on a thriller.
"Shooter" .