Emma Tammi
Birthdate: Feb 26, 1982
Birthplace: Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Emma Tammi is a horror movie specialist as a director/writer/producer, at least in narrative feature films, even though she got her filmmaking start in non-fiction, including such work as Fair Chase (2014), a documentary bout long-distance runners, co-directed by Alex Cullen. Tammi made her narrative feature debut with her Fair Chase producer, Christopher Alender, the supernatural western The Wind (2018), written by Teresa Sutherland, co-starring Caitlin Gerard, Ashley Zukerman, Julia Goldani Telles, and Miles Anderson, and released by IFC Midnight after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Tammi had her career breakthrough as director/co-writer of Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023), Blumhouse Productions’ supernatural horror movie adapted from creator/producer Scott Cawthorn’s video game series (by Tammi, Cawthorn, Seth Cuddeback, Chris Lee Hill and Tyler MacIntyre), starring Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard and Mary Stuart Masterson, and grossing a knockout $292 million box office for Universal Pictures. Tammi returned as director only of the sequel, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025), once again written by Cawthorn and produced by Cawthorn and Blum, and featuring new cast members Wayne Knight, Teo Briones, McKenna Grace, Skeet Ulrich, Kellen Golf, and Megan Fox, and released wide by Universal Pictures.
Personal life
Emma Tammi was born in Middletown, Connecticut and raised in New York City by her actor parents. Tammi followed her studies with an internship with filmmaker Robert Altman.
Known For
The Left Right Game
(2020)
Emma Tammi Movies
director
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- 2025 |
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Anyone can survive five nights. This time, there will be no second chances.
- 2023 |
Five Nights at Freddy’s
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. During his five nights on the job, he realizes that something is wrong with the pizzeria and pretty soon finds the truth about its animatronics.
- 2019 |
actor
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producer
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- 2019 |
Jay Myself
Photographer Stephen Wilkes creates an intimate portrait of his mentor, Jay Maisel, as he leaves the 30,000 square foot building in the Bowery that he's inhabited and filled with his eccentric collection of beautiful random objects for the last 40 years - known as 'The Bank.'
Facts About Emma Tammi
Finnish Line: Emma Tammi is of Finnish descent through her father Tom, who immigrated in 1949 to the U.S. from Finland as a child with his family.
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