Reginald Alan Hudlin was born on December 15,1961 and is an American film screenwriter, director, producer, and comic-book writer.
24 Facts About Reginald Hudlin
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From 2005 to 2008, Reginald Hudlin was President of Entertainment for Black Entertainment Television.
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Reginald Hudlin co-produced the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in 2016 as well as other TV specials.
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Reginald Hudlin worked as a producer on the 2012 film Django Unchained, directed by Quentin Tarantino, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.
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Reginald Hudlin was born in Centreville, Illinois, the son of two teachers.
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Reginald Hudlin's older brother, Warrington Reginald Hudlin, is a film director, as well as an actor and producer.
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The Reginald Hudlin Brothers are paternal great-great-grandsons of Peter and Nancy Reginald Hudlin, who were part of the Underground Railroad.
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Reginald Hudlin has said that the experience was formative, and led to his older brother attending Yale University, and his attending Harvard University.
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In 1979, Reginald Hudlin graduated from Assumption High School in East St Louis.
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Reginald Hudlin directed 1992's Boomerang, again with older brother Warrington producing.
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In 1992, while making Boomerang, Reginald Hudlin directed the first Black animated film, Bebe's Kids, which was championed by Paramount's Brandon Tartikoff, and was made in memory of comedian Robin Harris, who had died in 1990.
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In 1994, the Reginald Hudlin Brothers produced the HBO anthology television film Cosmic Slop, of which Reginald Hudlin directed the segment "Space Traders".
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Reginald Hudlin then directed The Great White Hype, The Ladies Man, Serving Sara, two episodes of the TV series Modern Family, an episode of The Office, an episode of The Middle, and several episodes of Outsourced.
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Reginald Hudlin was a recurring producer and director of The Bernie Mac Show for three years.
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From 2005 to 2008, Reginald Hudlin was the President of Entertainment for BET.
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Reginald Hudlin created The BET Honors and the BET Hip Hop Awards.
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Reginald Hudlin wrote the Marvel Comics series Black Panther from 2005 to 2008, including the 2006 storyline "Bride of the Panther," which saw the character marry X-Men leader Storm.
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On January 10,2013, Reginald Hudlin received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture for the film.
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Since 2013, Reginald Hudlin has been executive producer of the NAACP Image Awards.
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In 2014, Reginald Hudlin produced the Black Movie Soundtrack celebration of Black music in movies, held at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl and hosted by Craig Robinson.
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In 2015, Reginald Hudlin joined the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization founded in 1986 chartered to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community.
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In June 2021, the French website LivresHebdo said Reginald Hudlin is to direct a movie based on the comics Cinq branches de coton noir, written by Yves Sente and drawn by Steve Cuzor.
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In 2002, Reginald Hudlin married Chrisette Reginald Hudlin, a public relations consultant, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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In 2013, Chrisette Reginald Hudlin set up Emhoff on a blind date with then-Attorney General of California and future Vice-President, Kamala Harris.