John Singleton

John Singleton was born on Jan 06, 1968 in USA. John Singleton's big-screen debut came with Boyz n the Hood directed by John Singleton in 1991. John Singleton is known for Hustle & Flow directed by Craig Brewer, Terrence Howard stars as Djay and Anthony Anderson as Key. John Singleton has got 14 awards and 25 nominations so far. The most recent award John Singleton achieved is Black Movie Awards. The upcoming new movie John Singleton plays is Mosagallu which will be released on Mar 19, 2021.

Son of Danny Singleton, a mortgage broker, and Sheila Ward, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and raised in separate households by his unmarried parents, John Singleton attended the Film Writing Program at USC, after graduating from high school in 1986. While studying there, he won three writing awards from the university, which led to a contract with Creative Artists Agency during his sophomore year. Columbia Pictures bought his script for Boyz'n the Hood, la loi de la rue (1991) and budgeted it at $7 million. Singleton noted that much of the story comes from his own experiences in South Central LA and credited his parents with keeping him off the street.