Craig Brewer

Craig Houston Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy.

Brewer is the son of Gail, a teacher, and Walter D. Brewer, an executive who worked for Matson Navigation Co. He is of Irish, English, and Spanish descent. He was born in Newport News, Virginia, where his father was stationed in the Army, and grew up in Vallejo, California. One of his grandparents was Marv Throneberry, a professional baseball player and spokesman for Miller Lite beer.

Television The Shield ("Petty Cash") (TV series) (2008) (director) Terriers ("Pilot") (TV series) (2010) (director) Empire ("Fires of Heaven") (TV series) (2015) (director) Empire ("Sins that Amend") (TV series) (2016) (director) Empire ("Sound and Fury", "Toil & Trouble, Part I", "Full Circle") (TV series) (2017) (director) Empire ("Full Circle", "Birds in the Cage", "Of Hardiness is Mother", "The Empire Unpossess'd") (TV series) (2018) (director) Empire ("Without All Remedy", "The Roughest Day") (TV series) (2019) (director) Urban Cowboy ("Pilot") (TV series) (did not go to series) (writer/director) Boomerang ("Pilot") (TV series) (did not go to series) (director) $5 Cover (web series for MTV) (2009) (creator/director) Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist ("Round One: The Ballad of Chicken Man", "Round Two: Fight Night", "Round Seven: Jekyll Island", "Round Eight: Testify") (miniseries for Peacock) (2024)

Born 1971-12-06 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

On ThumbScore, Craig Brewer appears in 5 films with an average audience score of 72.8%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB