Lee Daniels

About Lee Daniels

Director best known for his 2009 film Precious, which received six Academy Award nominations including Best Director. He also directed The Butler, a 2013 film starring Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker. He is the creator and head showrunner for the TV series Empire and Star, which premiered in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Lee Daniels is an American director, producer and screenwriter. His first producer credit was Monster's Ball, thanks to which he became the first African-American film producer to produce only an Oscar-winning film, when Halle Berry won the award for best actress. After Shadowboxer made his Toronto International Film Festival debut, Daniels directed Precious, based on the novel Push. The film was nominated for six Oscars, including two for Daniels. In 2013, he directed Lee Daniels' The Butler, a television series that tells the story of an African-American butler who served in the White House for seven presidential terms. In 2015, Daniels co-created and directed Fox's Empire, and served as an executive producer for all six seasons.

Born	Lee Louis Daniels, December 24, 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Relatives	Honey Davenport (cousin)
Years active	1986–present
Children	2

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Trivia

He made his directorial debut with the 2005 thriller Shadowboxer.

Lee Daniels before fame

He began his career as a casting director and manager in the entertainment sector.

Achievement of Lee Daniels

Shadowboxer, a thriller he directed in 2005, was his directorial debut.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$20 Million

Lee Daniels family life

With his former boyfriend Billy Hopkins, he adopted two children, Clara and Liam.

Associations of Lee Daniels

Halle Berry won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball, which he produced in 2001.

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