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Clement Virgo

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Clement Virgo
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Clement Virgo is one of Canada's foremost film directors. In 2015 he directed and co-wrote a six part miniseries adaptation of the Lawrence Hill novel The Book of Negroes (2015) which debuted to record-breaking numbers on the CBC in Canada and on BET in the U.S. and won twelve Canadian Screen Awards and was nominated for two U.S. Critics Choice Television Awards for Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series (Aunjanue Ellis). Additional accolades include the 2015 Cablefax Award and C21 International Drama Award for Best Miniseries and four 2015 NAACP Image Award Nominations including Best Miniseries, Best Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Best Actress (Ellis), and Best Writing (Virgo, Hill).

His TV directing credits include American Crime (2015), The Wire (2002), and the entire first season of the OWN network drama series Greenleaf (2016), on which he is also serving as Executive Producer with _Oprah Winfrey_. Virgo's feature films include the 2007 boxing drama Poor Boy's Game (2007), (Berlin, TIFF, AFF Audience Award), Lie with Me (2005 - Berlin, TIFF, Pusan), and Love Come Down (2000 -Berlin, Toronto). Virgo's first feature Rude (1995) premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard and went on to screen at numerous festivals around the world including Toronto, London and Sundance. Since 2010, Virgo has also presented a series of intimate annual talks to celebrate Black History Month in Toronto with such notable guests as Lee Daniels, _Norman Jewison_, _Spike Lee_, _Pam Grier_, John Singleton, and _Chris Tucker (I)_.
BornJune 1, 1966
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Clement Virgo

Known for

Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Yolanda Robinson in Greenleaf (2016)
Greenleaf
7.5
TV Series
  • Producer
Aunjanue Ellis in The Book of Negroes (2015)
The Book of Negroes
7.8
TV Mini Series
  • Producer
The Wire (2002)
The Wire
9.3
TV Series
  • Director
Eric Balfour and Lauren Lee Smith in Lie with Me (2005)
Lie with Me
5.2
  • Producer(Conquering Lion)
  • 2005

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  • Festivale
    • Pre-production
  • Lamar Johnson and Aaron Pierre in Brother (2022)
    Brother
  • Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Yolanda Robinson in Greenleaf (2016)
    Greenleaf
  • Aunjanue Ellis in The Book of Negroes (2015)
    The Book of Negroes
  • Craig Olejnik and Lauren Lee Smith in The Listener (2009)
    The Listener
  • Poor Boy's Game (2007)
    Poor Boy's Game
  • Eric Balfour and Lauren Lee Smith in Lie with Me (2005)
    Lie with Me
  • Love Come Down (2000)
    Love Come Down
  • Sharon Lewis in Rude (1995)
    Rude

Director

  • Dear Edward
    • Completed
  • Cyclone
    • Pre-production
  • XOXO
    • In Development
  • Evan Peters in Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022)
    Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
  • Lamar Johnson and Aaron Pierre in Brother (2022)
    Brother
  • Odley Jean, Odessa A’zion, Maliq Johnson, Amalia Yoo, and Amir Bageria in Grand Army (2020)
    Grand Army
  • Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Yolanda Robinson in Greenleaf (2016)
    Greenleaf
  • Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson in Empire (2015)
    Empire
  • Billions (2016)
    Billions
  • Rogue (2013)
    Rogue
  • American Crime (2015)
    American Crime
  • Aunjanue Ellis in The Book of Negroes (2015)
    The Book of Negroes
  • Copper (2012)
    Copper
  • Craig Olejnik and Lauren Lee Smith in The Listener (2009)
    The Listener
  • ReGenesis (2004)
    ReGenesis
  • Poor Boy's Game (2007)
    Poor Boy's Game
  • Eric Balfour and Lauren Lee Smith in Lie with Me (2005)
    Lie with Me
  • The L Word (2004)
    The L Word

Additional Crew

  • Craig Olejnik and Lauren Lee Smith in The Listener (2009)
    The Listener
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    • June 1, 1966
    • Montego Bay, Jamaica
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    In 1977, moved to Canada with his mother, a nurse's aide, his brother and two sisters. His father, a shoemaker, stayed in Jamaica.

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