F. Gary Gray Biography
Born: 1970
Raised in South Central Los Angeles, director and producer F. Gary Gray successfully moved from a music video career to filmmaking. Starting off working for BET, Gray consistently shot his music videos in 35 mm for hip hop and rap superstars. His video for TLC's "Waterfalls" was voted Best Video of the Year at the MTV Music Video Awards. He also won several video awards for "Fantastic Voyage" by Coolio and "It Was a Good Day" by Ice_Cube. Gray continued to work with Ice_Cube for his directorial debut Friday, a comedy that was made for three million dollars and grossed nearly ten times that amount. His next feature was Set_It_Off, an action drama about four women who become bank robbers to escape the ghetto. In 1998, he moved on to big-budget action for The_Negotiator, starring Samuel_L._Jackson. The next year he moved to television to direct Ryan_Caulfield:_Year_One, a short-lived Fox drama about a rookie cop. In 2003, Gray's projects included the Vin_Diesel action flick A_Man_Apart and the crime drama The_Italian_Job, starring Mark_Wahlberg. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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