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Nia DaCosta
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BirthplaceBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Nia DaCosta

Actor · Director · Writer· Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American filmmaker. She rose to prominence with her feature-length directorial debut, Little Woods (2018), a crime thriller, which won the Nora Ephron Prize for Female Filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Festival.

After working on other projects, most notably directing two episodes of the British thriller series Top Boy in 2019, DaCosta became the first Black female director to debut at No. 1 at the U.S. box office for the weekend opening of the horror film Candyman (2021). She then became the first black woman to direct a Marvel Comics film with The Marvels (2023), which, despite being a box-office bomb, became the highest-grossing film directed by a black woman.

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Filmography

11 credits across 4 departments.

YearTitleRoleType
2026Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David LeanSelfFilm
2026Look Behind YouDirectorFilm
202628 Years Later: The Bone TempleDirectorFilm
2025HeddaDirectorFilm
2025HeddaWriterFilm
2025HeddaProducerFilm
2023The MarvelsDirectorFilm
2023The MarvelsWriterFilm
2021Behind the MonstersSelfTV
2021CandymanDirectorFilm
2019Little WoodsDirectorFilm

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