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F. Gary Gray
Birth at
17 July 1969
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F. Gary Gray was born in 1970 in Highland Park (Illinois, USA), grew up in Los Angeles. Already in school he began to work part-time at the studio of local public cable television, and in college he studied the art of film and television - although he never received a bachelor's degree. He began his career as an operator at the Los Angeles studios Black Entertainment Television (BET) and Twenty Television. Then F. Gary Gray began producing music videos for various rap and hip-hop stars, earning
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F. Gary Gray was born in 1970 in Highland Park (Illinois, USA), grew up in Los Angeles. Already in school he began to work part-time at the studio of local public cable television, and in college he studied the art of film and television - although he never received a bachelor's degree. He began his career as an operator at the Los Angeles studios Black Entertainment Television (BET) and Twenty Television. Then F. Gary Gray began producing music videos for various rap and hip-hop stars, earning a reputation as an outstanding director and winning a number of professional prizes. In 1995, he directed his debut film, the comedy Friday, starring Ice Cube. The budget of the picture was $ 3 million, and it brought ten times more. But F. Gary Gray's true directorial status was confirmed after the commercial and critical success of the dramatic action movie Set It Off (1996) - about how four women, seeking to escape the poverty and despair of the Negro ghetto, become bank robbers. The film grossed about $40 million and turned the director into a cult figure. In 1998, he directed the intense crime thriller Negotiator, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. The director then began working with Eddie Murphy on the comedy “Crazy Professor,” but was forced to part ways with him due to “creative differences.” He switched to cooperation with television, and in 2003 he released two films at once - a remake of the crime drama "Robbery in Italian" with Mark Wahlberg in the title role and an action film with Vin Diesel "Lonely".