John Ridley IV was born on October 1,1964 and is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
13 Facts About John Ridley
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John Ridley is the creator and showrunner of the anthology series American Crime.
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Ridley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was raised from the age of seven in Mequon, Wisconsin, with an ophthalmologist father, John Ridley, III, and a mother, Terry Ridley, who was a special education teacher for Milwaukee Public Schools.
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John Ridley has two sisters and is the middle sibling.
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John Ridley enrolled in Indiana University but transferred to New York University.
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John Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and Everybody Smokes in Hell.
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John Ridley then became a writer and a supervising producer on the NBC crime drama Third Watch.
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John Ridley's blog was Visible Man, a play on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
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In 2003, John Ridley inked a one-year overall deal with Universal Network Television.
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In 2021, John Ridley began writing a number of series for DC Comics.
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In May 2021, Marvel Comics announced that John Ridley will write Black Panther comics.
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In December 2007, during the Writers Guild of America strike against the major production studios, John Ridley opted for WGA membership as a dues-paying non-member, or "fi-core," making him eligible to submit scripts to the studios while the strike was ongoing.
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John Ridley is married to wife Gayle, a former script supervisor.