Reginald Hudlin
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Hudlin in 2007
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Reginald Alan Hudlin December 15, 1961 Centreville, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Film director, writer, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Chrisette Suter (2002–present) |
Reginald Alan Hudlin (born December 15, 1961) is an American writer, film director, and producer. He served as President of Entertainment for BET from 2005 to 2008. He co-produced the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in 2016.
He directed House Party (1990) and Boomerang (1992). He was a producer of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012).
Hudlin was born in Centreville, Illinois, the son of Helen (née Cason), a teacher, and Warrington W. Hudlin, Sr., an insurance executive and teacher. His older brother, Warrington Hudlin, is also a film director, as well as an actor and producer.
While an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Hudlin became a brother of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. Hudlin also directed a short film entitled, "House Party," which went on to receive numerous awards including first place at the Black American Cinema Society Awards. It would serve as the basis for his first feature film of the same name.
For two years he has been the executive producer of the NAACP Image Awards. The show got its highest rating on NBC in 2013, then became the highest rated show in the history of TV One in 2014.
He directed House Party, Boomerang, The Great White Hype, The Ladies Man, Serving Sara (2002), two episodes of the TV series Modern Family, an episode of The Office, an episode of The Middle and several episodes of Outsourced. He was a reoccurring producer and director of the The Bernie Mac Show for three years.
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