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Antoine Fuqua (born January 19, 1966)[1] is an American filmmaker, known for his work in the action and thriller genres. He was originally known as a director of music videos, and made his film debut in 1998 with The Replacement Killers. His critical breakthrough was the award-winning 2001 crime thriller Training Day.

Antoine Fuqua
Fuqua at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	(1966-01-19) January 19, 1966 (age 56) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Film director producer actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Lela Rochon ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	3
Family	Harvey Fuqua (uncle)

His subsequent films include Tears of the Sun (2003), King Arthur (2004), Shooter (2007), Brooklyn's Finest (2009), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), The Equalizer (2014) and its 2018 sequel, Southpaw (2015), the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven, and Infinite (2021). He often collaborates with actors Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. He also directed the critically-acclaimed documentaries American Dream/American Knightmare (2018) and What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019), and the 2022 Hulu documentary series Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers.

Early life

Fuqua was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Carlos and Mary Fuqua. He is the nephew of record producer and executive Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows. Fuqua pays tribute to screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto, a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa's, saying his writing "affected a boy from Pittsburgh living in the ghetto."

[Shinobu Hashimoto's writing] was so beautiful and poetic and powerful and heartbreaking. It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys. I came from a rough area, and I had my own version of watching poor people getting pushed down – whoever the person was who had the power, they would come in and take from other people.[2]

Fuqua explained how his experience of violence shaped his adolescence, and played a role in his eventual choice of career.

My first big break was when I got shot when I was fifteen. It changed my life and it made me not hang out in the streets as much, and go to the movies more. Those sort of things are wake up calls to have a better appreciation for life, and a better appreciation for the people around you. From that moment in my life I put all my energy into what I believed in, and at that time it was playing basketball and sports. That led me to a scholarship ... after that a professor said that I should take an art class ... I fell in love with an artist by the name of Caravaggio.[3]

Before turning to filmmaking and music videos, Fuqua studied electrical engineering, with the hope of going on to fly jets in the military.[4]

Career

Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. He directed Michelle Pfeiffer in the video Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio which was used to promote Jerry Bruckheimer's successful film Dangerous Minds.

The movie became a big hit and Jerry Bruckheimer was kind enough to give me a lot of credit for it because they used my music video ... the irony was people thought I was the new French film director. No one had any idea was I was this guy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So I used to walk in the room and people would literally ask me to get coffee. And I would say, "No, no, I'm the director", and I loved watching their faces. That was fun.[3]

From 1998 onwards, Fuqua began working primarily as a feature film director. In a tribute article for Time magazine, Fuqua expressed his early respect for Kurosawa as a filmmaker and how Kurosawa influenced his own perspective on filmmaking stating: "[screen writer Hashimoto's] ... working with Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni, was so beautiful and poetic and powerful and heartbreaking. It was all about justice, it was all about sacrifice, and it made me want to be one of those guys".[2]

His first feature films were the John Woo-produced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat and the action comedy Bait (2000) starring Jamie Foxx. He then directed the crime thriller Training Day (2001), for which star Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor. His next films were the action war drama Tears of the Sun (2003), the Arthurian legend film King Arthur (2004), the conspiracy action thriller Shooter (2007), the crime film Brooklyn's Finest (2009), and the action thrillers Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and The Equalizer (2014), the latter of which again pairs Fuqua with Denzel Washington. In 2011, he directed CIA procedural Fox pilot Exit Strategy starring Ethan Hawke.[5][6]

He co-created the comic-book miniseries After Dark with Wesley Snipes, which was written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup.[7] He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic[8] but the project was postponed to allow Fuqua to direct rapper Eminem's second feature film, Southpaw (2015).[9] Eminem later left Southpaw to focus on his music,[10] and was replaced with Jake Gyllenhaal.[11]

His 2016 film was a remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven which itself was an American remake of Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. Denzel Washington plays the lead role of Sam Chisolm.[12]

In early 2018, Fuqua worked as one of the executive producers on the Fox medical drama series The Resident. In the summer of 2018, his thriller sequel The Equalizer 2 (2018) was released with Denzel Washington returning in the main role. In June 2021, Fuqua's sci-fi film Infinite, starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor was released.

In 2021, Fuqua and actor Will Smith announced that their upcoming film, Emancipation, will not be filmed in Georgia because of the recent passage of Georgia's restrictive voting law. Smith and Fuqua released the joint statement: "We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access".[13]

More recently, on December 3, 2021, he inked a first look deal with Netflix. Also that day, he renamed his production company from Fuqua Films to Hill District Media.[14] He later signed an overall television deal with Paramount Television Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios.[15]

Personal life

In 1998, actress Lela Rochon and Fuqua were engaged, and they married on April 9, 1999. Daughter Asia Rochon Fuqua was born on July 28, 2002, and son Brando in May 2004. Fuqua has a son, Zachary, from a previous relationship. He also has two granddaughters.

When asked by the BBC in September 2014 whether he believes in God, Fuqua said: "Absolutely. I believe in God, absolutely."[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Producer
1998	The Replacement Killers	Yes	No
2000	Bait	Yes	No
2001	Training Day	Yes	No
2003	Tears of the Sun	Yes	No
2004	King Arthur	Yes	No
2007	Shooter	Yes	No
2009	Brooklyn's Finest	Yes	Executive
2013	Olympus Has Fallen	Yes	Yes
2014	The Equalizer	Yes	No
2015	Southpaw	Yes	Yes
2016	The Magnificent Seven	Yes	Executive
2018	The Equalizer 2	Yes	Yes
2021	Infinite	Yes	Executive
	The Guilty	Yes	Yes
2022	Bullet Train	No	Yes
	Emancipation	Yes	Executive
2023	The Equalizer 3	Yes	Yes

Documentary films

Year	Title
		Director	Producer	Notes
2004	Lightning in a Bottle	Yes	No
2005	Bastards of the Party	No	Yes
2016	Forever Brothers: The '71 Pittsburgh Pirates Story	No	Executive	TV movie
2018	American Dream/American Knightmare	Yes	Yes
2019	What's My Name: Muhammad Ali	Yes	Yes
2021	The Day Sports Stood Still	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title
		Director	Executive producer	Notes
2016–17	Ice	Yes	Yes	Episode "Hyenas"
2022	The Terminal List	Yes	Yes	Episode "The Engram"
	Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers	Yes	Yes	10 episodes

Executive producer only

• Shooter (2016–2018)
• Training Day (2017)
• The Resident (2018–present)
• FreeRayshawn (2020)
• Mayor of Kingstown (2021–present)

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Ref(s)
1990	"I Like the Girls"	Mr. Lee	[17]
1992	"Love's Taken Over"	Chanté Moore	[18]
	"It's Alright"
	"All I See"	Christopher Williams
	"Saving Forever for You"	Shanice
1993	"Another Sad Love Song"	Toni Braxton	[17]
	"The Morning After"	Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
	"Nobody Does It Betta"	Mint Condition	[19]
1994	"Ain't Nobody"	Jaki Graham
	"Somewhere"	Shanice
	"I'm in the Mood"	CeCe Peniston
	"Deep Down"	Ladae	[20]
	"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"	Prince	[17]
	"Sending My Love"	Zhané	[21]
	"United Front"	Arrested Development	[17]
1995	"For Your Love"	Stevie Wonder	[22]
	"Freedom"	Various Artists	[23]
	"Gangsta's Paradise"	Coolio	[24]
1996	"Someday"	All-4-One	[25]
1998	"Bedtime (Version 2)"	Usher Raymond
1999	"Blue Angels"	Pras
2007	"Citizen/Soldier"	3 Doors Down	[26]
2011	"Mirror"	Lil Wayne	[27]

Commercials

• Pirelli Tires – "The Call" (2006), featuring Naomi Campbell and John Malkovich

References

External links

• Antoine Fuqua at IMDb
• Hollywood Reporter story on upcoming the Notorious B.I.G. film (from 2005)
• On Directing with Antoine Fuqua nthWORD Interview by Gina Ponce, April 2010
• Nicole Murphy Apologizes for Kissing Married Director Antoine Fuqua
• Nicole Murphy Apologizes to Antoine Fuqua's Wife After Kissing Pics Surface

На других языках

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[de] Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua (* 19. Januar 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) ist ein US-amerikanischer Regisseur von Spielfilmen, Musikvideos und Werbespots. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch seinen Kriminalfilm Training Day, für den Denzel Washington 2002 den Oscar als bester Hauptdarsteller gewann.

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- [en] Antoine Fuqua

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[es] Antoine Fuqua

Antoine Fuqua (n. 19 de julio de 1966) es un director de cine estadounidense. Dirigió Training Day, The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter y Brooklyn's Finest, entre otras películas.

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[ru] Фукуа, Антуан

Антуан Фукуа (англ. Antoine Fuqua) — американский кинорежиссёр и продюсер. В начале своей карьеры снимал видеоклипы для таких популярных артистов, как Тони Брэкстон и Принс. В дальнейшем стал кинорежиссёром. Широкую известность приобрёл после фильма «Тренировочный день», отмеченного премией Американской киноакадемии.

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