Reinaldo Marcus Green
Birthdate: Mar 4, 1981
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Reinaldo Marcus Green is an acclaimed director who has displayed a special knack for biopics. Green was the director/writer/producer of six short films between 2011 and 2015, which included work that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation and was capped with Stop (2015), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Green’s feature debut as director-writer was a drama that echoed the true-life case of the police killing of Eric Garner, Monsters and Men (2018), starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Rob Morgan, and released by Neon. Green returned as director only of the father-son drama co-written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Joe Bell (2020), starring Mark Wahlberg, Reid Miller, Connie Britton, and Gary Sinise, and released to the modest box office by Roadside Attractions after a Toronto film festival premiere.
Green had his filmmaking breakthrough as director with the widely acclaimed King Richard (2021), starring Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, and Jon Bernthal, earning six Oscar nominations (with a Smith best actor win, a best picture nomination, but not a directing nod for Green) after premiering at the Telluride film festival. Reinaldo Marcus Green was director and co-writer (with Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, and Zach Baylin) of his second biopic, Bob Marley: One Love (2024), starring Kingsley Ben-Adir (as Marley), Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Sevana, and Tosin Cole, and released by Paramount Pictures.
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Personal Details
Reinaldo Marcus Green was born and raised in New York’s Bronx and Staten Island boroughs by a Black father and a Puerto Rican-born mother. Green has one brother, Rashaad Green. After his parents divorced, Green and his brother lived largely with their father. Green graduated from Port Richmond High School and then attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he earned a master’s degree in education. Green has been an elementary school teacher, a director of educational programming for AIG, and then shifted to studies in filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate film program, where he has subsequently served as an adjunct professor. Green has one son, named Rio Rashaad Green.
Filmography
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Previous (1)
- 2024 | Bob Marley: One Love
Bob Marley: One Love
The story of how reggae icon Bob Marley overcame adversity, and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
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Previous (3)
- 2021 | King RichardasDirector(directed by)
King Richard
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
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- 2018 | Monsters and MenasDirector
Monsters and Men
The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
Some Facts About Reinaldo Marcus Green
Play Ball: Reinaldo Marcus Green had two tryouts for Major League Baseball.
Teacher: Green began his professional life as a teacher in elementary school, for kindergarten to fifth grade.
