Jaffar Mahmood

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1977-11-22 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Toms River, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As Jaffar Mahmoud

Jaffar Mahmood

Biography

Jaffar Mahmood [Jah-fur Ma-mood] was born and raised in Toms River, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and his M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Producing Program USC. The issues Jaffar faced growing up bi-racial became the inspiration for his feature directorial debut, Shades of Ray. Executive produced by Jake Kasdan (New Girl), the independent film stars Zachary Levi (Chuck) and won awards at film festivals around the world. In 2013, Jaffar was a member of the inaugural Warner Bros. Directors’ Workshop. From there he directed/created Courtside, a short comedic web series that got the attention of executives at HBO. They invited Jaffar to shadow on the HBO comedy The Brink. In late 2014, Jaffar booked his first network television directing gig—NBC’s About a Boy.

Known For

Director

2024
Interior Chinatown

as Director

2023
Dear Edward

as Director

2022
Reboot

as Director

2021
Hot Mess Holiday

as Director

2021
Mr. Mayor

as Director

2017
Powerless

as Director

2017
Young Sheldon

as Director

2017
Santa Clarita Diet

as Director

2016
The Real O'Neals

as Director

2015
Life in Pieces

as Director

2013
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

as Director

2009
Modern Family

as Director

2009
The Middle

as Director

2008
Shades of Ray

as Director

Writer

2008
Shades of Ray

as Writer