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Marie-Françoise Theodore

Marie-Françoise Theodore

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Marie-Françoise Theodore is an interdisciplinary artist of Haitian descent working in film, television and theatre as writer, actor and filmmaker. A native of Chicago IL, she resides in Los Angeles, CA with her son Aaron. Marie-Françoise is the recipient of a 2006 Women In Film/General Motors Acceleration Grant for Emerging Filmmakers and is a 2006 Film Independent Fellow – Project:Involve Honoree (formerly IFP/LA), and was mentored by esteemed film and television director Neema Barnett. In 2007, Marie-Francoise received a Frances E. Williams Artist Grant for Writing to attend Natalie Goldberg's 'Old Friend, Far Away' Memoir Writing Retreat in Sante Fe, NM. Her debut feature length screenplay The Street, adapted from the award-winning novel by Ann Petry, has been a finalist for several prestigious screenplay programs including the Bush Foundation Fellowship, Tribeca All Access Connects and twice for the Roy W. Dean Foundation. Marie-Françoise has been short-listed for the Sundance Screenwriter Labs for three consecutive years.   Marie-Françoise is the writer/director/actor of two experimental narrative short films: the multi-award winning rebel in the soul and bloodmemory.  rebel in the soul, has screened in over ten film festivals nationally and abroad, winning Best Experimental Short at the 2003 Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival in NY. Marie-Françoise starred in the independent feature film Strange As Angels (also Associate Producer) distributed by Image Entertainment; Love Jones (New Line Cinema); and Small Metal Jacket (BBC Films). Marie-Françoise holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College, Chicago IL. Marie-Françoise is currently working on her memoir Not A Proper Haitian Girl, which chronicles her Chicago childhood in the 1970s-- from placement in an orphanage at birth through to her natural mother's subsequent marriage to Marie-Françoise's foster-mother's nephew. The memoir explores the complex relationships of an extended foster and natural family and the consequences of memory and identity for a young girl.

Movie Credits

Love Jones

Love Jones‌
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calendar 1997

Lockdown: 2025

Lockdown: 2025‌
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calendar 2021

Small Metal Jacket

Small Metal Jacket‌
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calendar 1992

Mob Rules

Mob Rules‌
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calendar 2011

Royce

Royce‌
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calendar 1994

Set Apart

Set Apart‌
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calendar 2009

Strange as Angels

Strange as Angels‌
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calendar 2005

Voodoo Possession

Voodoo Possession‌
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calendar 2014

90 Minutes of the Fever

90 Minutes of the Fever‌
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calendar 2019

DWB: Dating While Black

DWB: Dating While Black‌
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calendar 2018

C'mon Man

C'mon Man‌
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calendar 2012

A-X-L

A-X-L‌
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calendar 2018

Dispel

Dispel‌
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calendar 2019

Her Deadly Sugar Daddy

Her Deadly Sugar Daddy‌
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calendar 2020

Tv Credits

Single Drunk Female

Single Drunk Female‌
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calendar 2022

The Morning Show

The Morning Show‌
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calendar 2019

The Orville

The Orville‌
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calendar 2017

How to Get Away with Murder

How to Get Away with Murder‌
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calendar 2014

Only Murders in the Building

Only Murders in the Building‌
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calendar 2021

Workaholics

Workaholics‌
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calendar 2011

Station 19

Station 19‌
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calendar 2018