Jordan Peele is becoming a marquee name! He is becoming one of the highly regarded directors in the bussiness!
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- Jordan Peele appeared for five seasons as a cast member on the sketch series Mad TV
- Jordan Peele co-created and co-starred with Keegan-Michael Key in the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Key & Peele
- In 2014, he had a recurring role in the FX anthology series Fargo
- Jordan Peele also co-created the TBS comedy series The Last O.G.
- And the YouTube Premium comedy series Weird City
- He will host, narrate and produce the CBS All Access anthology series The Twilight Zone
- In film, Peele has starred in the comedy films Wanderlust (2012), Keanu (2016), Storks (2016), and Toy Story 4 (2019)
- Peele’s 2017 directorial debut earned critical acclaim
- It was a box office success
- It was he horror film Get Out
- He received numerous accolades
- Including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
- Along with nominations for Best Picture and Best Director
- Jordan Peele received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture
- For producing Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018)
- He then wrote, produced and directed the horror film Us
- Peele was born in New York City
- He was raised by his single mother
- Her name is Lucinda Williams
- He was raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
- His mother is white
- And his father is black
- He attended the Computer School in Manhattan
- He graduated from The Calhoun School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
- He went on to Sarah Lawrence College
- Before dropping out after two years to form a comedy duo
- With his college roommate and future Key & Peele comedy writer Rebecca Drysdale
- In February 2017, Jordan Peele curated the Brooklyn Academy of Music film series “The Art of the Social Thriller”
- Comprising 12 films that inspired the making of Get Out
- This films include the horror films Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead, The Shining, Candyman, The People Under the Stairs, Scream, The Silence of the Lambs, Funny Games, Misery
- The thrillers Rear Window, The ‘Burbs
- And the 1967 racial comedy-drama Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- As a comedian, Peele counts among his influences In Living Color, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle
- Jordan Peele began dating Chelsea Peretti in 2013
- They became engaged in November 2015
- In April 2016, Peretti announced that she and Peele had secretly married on an unspecified date
- Peretti gave birth to their son on July 1, 2017
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