Antoine Fuqua

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1966-01-19 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As 安东尼·福奎阿

Antoine Fuqua

Biography

Fuqua began his career directing music videos for popular artists such as Toni Braxton, Coolio, Stevie Wonder, and Prince. From 1998 onwards, he began directing feature films, although he has worked on a few music videos since then. 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: "(screenwriter 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". His first feature film was the John Woo-produced action film The Replacement Killers (1998), starring Chow Yun Fat. 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. He co-created the comic-book miniseries After Dark with Wesley Snipes, which was written by Peter Milligan and illustrated by Jeff Nentrup. Fuqua was scheduled to direct Prisoners, based on a storybook from Aaron Guzikowski, but left the project. He was slated to direct Tupac Shakur's official biopic. The project was postponed to allow Fuqua to direct rapper Eminem's second feature film, Southpaw. However, Eminem put Southpaw on hold to focus on music and was replaced with Jake Gyllenhaal. In 2010, CBS Films hired Fuqua to direct a new movie based on a Vince Flynn novel, Consent to Kill. In May 2014, 20th Century Fox set Fuqua to direct a drug-smuggling thriller film Narco Sub, which is scripted by David Guggenheim.

Known For

Director

Tyson

as Director

Siege of Bethlehem

as Director

Narco Sub

as Director

The Street

as Director

2025
Michael

as Director

2023
The Equalizer 3

as Director

2022
Emancipation

as Director

2022
The Terminal List

as Director

2021
Infinite

as Director

2021
The Guilty

as Director

2018
The Equalizer 2

as Director

2016
2016
Ice

as Director

2015
Southpaw

as Director

2014
The Equalizer

as Director

2013
Olympus Has Fallen

as Director

2010
Brooklyn's Finest

as Director

2007
Shooter

as Director

2006
The Call

as Director

2004
King Arthur

as Director

2004
2003
Tears of the Sun

as Director

2001
Training Day

as Director

2000
Bait

as Director

1998
1992
Inside Out 4

as Director

Producer

The Terminal List: Dark Wolf

as Executive Producer

Tyson

as Executive Producer

Sky’s End

as Producer

2024
Rob Peace

as Producer

2023
The Equalizer 3

as Producer

2022
Emancipation

as Executive Producer

2022
Bullet Train

as Producer

2022
The Terminal List

as Executive Producer

2022
2021
Infinite

as Executive Producer

2021
The Guilty

as Producer

2021
Mayor of Kingstown

as Executive Producer

2020
#FreeRayshawn

as Executive Producer

2018
The Equalizer 2

as Producer

2016
Shooter

as Executive Producer

2015
Southpaw

as Producer

2013
Olympus Has Fallen

as Producer

2010
Brooklyn's Finest

as Executive Producer

2005
Bastards of the Party

as Executive Producer

Actor

2018
2017
Ghost of the Mountains

as Narrator (voice)

2016
Geeking Out

as Self

2000
Bait

as Man (uncredited)

Creator