Barry Michael Cooper(1958-2025)

Producer
Writer
Director

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Barry Michael Cooper is a producer and writer, known for New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1993) and Above the Rim (1994) and She's Gotta Have It (2017-2019). A former investigative reporter for the Village Voice and Spin Magazine, Cooper was one of the first journalists to report on the crack-cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s.

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Known for

New Jack City

6.7

Writer

1991

Blood on the Wall$

Producer

2005

Guilt...

Short

Producer

2019

Above the Rim

6.6

Writer

1994

Credits

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Producer

She's Gotta Have It
7.0
TV Series
- supervising producer
- producer
- 2017–2019
Guilt...
Short
- producer
- 2019
American Gangster
7.7
TV Series
- producer
- 2008
Blood on the Wall$
- executive producer
- 2005

Writer

Director

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Personal details

Official sites
- France's national library catalogue
- Gens du
Born
- June 12, 1958
- Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- January 21, 2025
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA(Undisclosed)
Spouse
- Charmaine Lynn(her death, 2 children)
Children
- Matthew
Publicity listings
- 1 Interview

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Trivia
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Cooper was the first African-American screenwriter in history to have two films ("Sugar Hill" February 1994, and "Above The Rim" March 1994) released not only in the same year, but a month apart from each other.