# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amma-asante
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:55:05.729Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amma-asante"
name: "Amma Asante"
slug: "amma-asante"
description: "Amma Asante is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and, since 2019, chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts. She first appeared in the BBC children's television drama series Grange Hill, and later wrote and produced the 1998 BBC Two television series Brothers and Sisters, starring David Oyelowo. She is known for directing the feature films A Way of Life (2004); Belle (2013); and A United Kingdom (2016), also starring Oyelowo. On television, she directed two episodes of season 3 of The Handmaid's Tale in 2019, and is co-creator, writer, and director of the internationally co-produced TV crime drama series Smilla's Sense of Snow, premiering on Australian television on 30 July 2025."
tagline: "British actor and film director (born 1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amma_Asante_at_MIFF.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1969-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.1
  momentum:             0.6067172264355363
  historical:           14.105732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/AmmaAsante"
    handle:    "AmmaAsante"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392994/"
    handle:    "nm1392994"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ammaasante.com"
sources:
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    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اما اسانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%A2%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "آما آسانته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94"
    title: "ამა ასანტე"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%A7%88_%EC%95%84%EC%82%B0%ED%85%8C"
    title: "아마 아산테"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Asante_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Amma Asante (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4747087"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193597"
    title: "Amma Asante"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump