Trey Edward Shults
Birthdate: Oct 6, 1988
Birthplace: Montgomery, Texas, USA
Trey Edwards Shults is an acclaimed American independent filmmaker who comes out of the Austin, Texas filmmaking scene and received raves reviews (95% Rotten Tomatoes rating) for his feature debut (as director/writer/producer/editor) based on his 2014 short of the same title, Krisha (2015), co-starring several of his family members, including Krisha Fairchild, Robyn Fairchild (Shults’s mother), Shults himself, and Bill Wise, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival (winning both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award) and internationally in the selection of the Semaine de la Critique competition at the Cannes Film Festival before a U.S. release by A24, and then winning Shults several prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s New Generation Award to the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best First Film Award and the Spirit Awards’ John Cassavetes Award.
Shults was director/writer/editor of his second feature, the Apocalyptic horror film, It Comes at Night (2017), co-starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Riley Keough, and released by A24 to a fine return of $20 million. Shults was director/writer/producer/editor of his third feature, the critically acclaimed family drama, Waves (2019), starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Lucas Hedges, Alexa Demie, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Sterling K. Brown, premiering at the Telluride Film Festival and internationally at the Toronto Film Festival, and released by A24/Focus Features to a poor $2.6 million return.
Shults returned to the big screen after a six year absence as director/writer/executive producer/editor of the music-based thriller, Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025), a feature film companion to Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s sixth solo album of the same title and starring Tesfaye (as a fictionalized version of himself), with Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, produced by Live Nation Entertainment and released globally by Lionsgate.
Personal life
Trey Edwards Shults was born and raised in Montgomery, Texas, by his parents, mother Robyn and father William Shults. Shults’s father, who struggled with addictions, died of pancreatic cancer, inspiring Shults to make his acclaimed film, Krisha. Shults attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in business, and then dropped out in his sophomore year after discovering filmmaking by working on the Austin-based crews for Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011), The Voyage of Time (2016), and Song to Song (2017).
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- 2025 |
Hurry Up Tomorrow
An insomniac musician encounters a mysterious stranger, leading to a journey that challenges everything he knows about himself.
- 2019 |
- 2017 |
It Comes at Night
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
- 2016 |
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Facts About Trey Edward Shults
It’s All Relative: Trey Edwards Shults’s aunt is actor Krisha Fairchild, best known for her starring role in Shults’s film named after her, Krisha (2014), and also starred in other Shults short films, including Mother and Son (2010), Two to One (2011) and the short version of Krisha (2014).
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