Jordan Peele is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is known for his duo sketch group Key & Peele with Keegan-Michael Key. He has also directed Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Nope (2022).
Jordan Peele is an actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is known for his duo sketch group Key & Peele with Keegan-Michael Key. He has also directed Get Out (2017), Us (2019), and Nope (2022).
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Boner Boyz! | D-Rock Peppers | Short film |
| 2010 | 3B | Rob | Short film |
| Little Fockers | EMT | ||
| 2012 | Wanderlust | Rodney Wilson | |
| 2013 | The Sidekick | Sidecar Willy | Short film |
| 2016 | Keanu | Rell "Techtonic" and Oil Dresden | Also writer and producer |
| Storks | Beta Wolf (voice) | ||
| 2017 | Get Out | Wounded Deer, UNCF Narrator (voices) | Uncredited [1] |
| Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie | Melvin Sneedly (voice) | ||
| 2019 | Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | Himself [2] [3] | Documentary film |
| Us | Dying Rabbit, Fun House Narrator (voices) | Uncredited [4] | |
| Toy Story 4 | Bunny (voice) | ||
| 2022 | The Bob's Burgers Movie | Fanny (voice) | |
| Wendell & Wild | Wild (voice) [5] | ||
| 2023 | Abruptio | Danny (voice) | [6] |
| First Time Female Director | Mystery Coach |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Get Out | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2019 | Us | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2022 | Nope | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Year | Title | Writer | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Keanu | Yes | Yes |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | No | Yes |
| 2021 | Candyman | Yes | Yes |
| 2022 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. | No | Executive |
| Wendell & Wild | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | Monkey Man | No | Yes |
| Year | Title | Actor | Writer | Executive Producer | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003–08 | Mad TV | Yes | Yes | No | Various | 94 episodes |
| 2008 | Chocolate News | Yes | No | No | Kelvin Melvin | 7 episodes |
| 2009 | Reno 911! | Yes | No | No | Three-Card Monte Guy | Episode: "Extradition to Thailand" |
| 2009–10 | SuperNews! | Yes | No | No | Various voices | 15 episodes |
| 2010–15 | Childrens Hospital | Yes | No | No | Dr. Brian | 10 episodes |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Yes | No | No | Eli | Episode: "Too Much Information" |
| 2012–15 | Key & Peele | Yes | Yes | Yes | Himself, Various | 54 episodes; also co-creator |
| 2013 | The Mindy Project | Yes | No | No | Nick | Episode: "Mindy's Minute" |
| Workaholics | Yes | No | No | Mark | Episode: "The Worst Generation" | |
| Comedy Bang! Bang! | Yes | No | No | Tan Fu | Episode: "Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt & Glasses" | |
| Modern Family | Yes | No | No | Derrick | Episode: "A Fair to Remember" | |
| 2013 | Axe Cop | Yes | No | No | Super Axe (voice) | Episode: "Super Axe" |
| 2013–14 | Kroll Show | Yes | No | No | Ref Rondy, Various | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Fargo | Yes | No | No | Agent Webb Pepper | 4 episodes |
| Drunk History | Yes | No | No | Percy Julian | Episode: "Montgomery, AL" | |
| Robot Chicken | Yes | No | No | Blade, various voices | 2 episodes | |
| Rick and Morty | Yes | No | No | 4th-Dimensional Being (voice) | Episode: "A Rickle in Time" | |
| 2014–16 | Bob's Burgers | Yes | No | No | Various voices | 8 episodes |
| 2015 | Life in Pieces | Yes | No | No | Chad | 3 episodes |
| Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp | Yes | No | No | Alan | 3 episodes | |
| TripTank | Yes | No | No | Various voices | 2 episodes | |
| 2015–18 | SuperMansion | Yes | No | No | Bugula (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | The Muppets | Yes | No | No | Himself | Episode: "Swine Song" |
| American Dad! | Yes | No | No | Street Thug (voice) | Episode: "Criss-Cross Applesauce: The Ballad of Billy Jesusworth" | |
| 2017–present | Big Mouth | Yes | No | No | The Ghost of Duke Ellington / various voices | 71 episodes |
| 2018 | The Shivering Truth | Yes | No | No | Various voices | Episode: "Ogled Inklings" |
| 2018–21 | The Last O.G. | No | Yes | Yes | — | 40 episodes; also co-creator |
| 2019 | Weird City | No | Yes | Yes | — | 6 episodes; also co-creator |
| Lorena | No | No | Yes | — | 4 episodes | |
| 2019–20 | The Twilight Zone | Yes | Yes | Yes | Host / Narrator | 20 episodes |
| 2020–23 | Hunters | No | No | Yes | — | 18 episodes |
| 2020 | Lovecraft Country | No | No | Yes | — | 10 episodes |
| Year | Title | Role | Artist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | "White & Nerdy" | Black Gangster | "Weird Al" Yankovic |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | OD | — | Writer |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Epic Rap Battles of History | Martin Luther King Jr. | "Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr." [7] |
| 2014 | Muhammad Ali | "Michael Jordan vs Muhammad Ali" [8] [9] |
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "the Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He held the Ring magazine heavyweight title from 1964 to 1970. He was the undisputed champion from 1974 to 1978 and the WBA and Ring heavyweight champion from 1978 to 1979. In 1999, he was named Sportsman of the Century by Sports Illustrated and the Sports Personality of the Century by the BBC.
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He and Jordan Peele co-created and co-starred in the sketch series Key & Peele (2012–2015) for which he received one Primetime Emmy Award from ten nominations. He also acted in the sketch series Mad TV (2004–2009), sitcom Playing House (2014–2017), the comedy series Friends from College (2017–2019) and the series Reboot (2022). He also appeared alongside Peele in the first season of the series Fargo in 2014, and had a recurring role on Parks and Recreation from 2013 to 2015. Key later starred in the musical comedy series Schmigadoon! (2021–2023).
Jordan Haworth Peele is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is known for his film and television work in the comedy and horror genres. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. Peele started his career in sketch comedy before transitioning his career to a writer and director of psychological horror and satirical films. In 2017, Peele was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor. Prominent both on screen and stage, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2021, he was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
This article covers the boxer Muhammad Ali's appearances in media and popular culture.
Peter Alexis Shukoff, best known as his stage name Nice Peter or Bluesocks, is an American musician, rapper and Internet personality. A self-described "Comic/Guitar Hero", he is best known for the comedy on his YouTube channel, Nice Peter, and especially for the comedic series Epic Rap Battles of History which he co-created with Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. As of June 8, 2016, NicePeter has over 2.6 million YouTube subscribers. The day after hitting one million subscribers, the video game channel G4 crowned Nice Peter the King of Dot Comedy on Attack of the Show. His two channels, Nice Peter and ERB, have a total of over 17 million subscribers and 4 billion views as of February 2019. He also has a third channel that he uses for vlogs and "Monday Shows", a show that he uploads on either Mondays or Tuesdays consisting of different segments including "Viewer Mail", "Twitter Question Time", and "Ask a Giraffe". They have been featured on the Huffington Post, Billboard.com, Forbes and the January 2012 issue of Wired.
Epic Rap Battles of History (ERB) is a YouTube web series and music project created by Peter "Nice Peter" Shukoff and Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. The series pits historical and pop culture figures against one another in a rap battle format. The characters portrayed are often determined by suggestions from viewers in the comments sections of the channel's videos. Shukoff and Ahlquist write each song themselves, researching the subject in order to find obscure details to use as references in the lyrics, although guest stars featured in the battles as well as certain Patreon subscribers have also contributed to the writing process. Following an extended hiatus, the channel returned with a bonus battle in December 2018, and the sixth season debuted on April 20, 2019. As of February 23, 2023, the channel has 14.9 million subscribers and approximately 4 billion total video views.
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Lil Rel Howery, LaKeith Stanfield, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, and Catherine Keener. The plot follows a young Black man (Kaluuya), who uncovers shocking secrets when he meets the family of his white girlfriend (Williams).
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019).
Monkeypaw Productions is an American film and television production company founded in 2012 by Jordan Peele. The company is known for producing horror films, such as Get Out, Us, Candyman, Nope and Wendell & Wild.
A social thriller is a film genre using elements of suspense and horror to augment instances of apparent oppression in society. The genre gained attention by audiences and critics around the late 2010s with the releases of Jordan Peele's Get Out and Us, each film highlighting occurrences of racial alienation. Before Peele, other film actors, directors, and critics had used the term to describe an emerging genre of cinema with examples from all over the globe.
Us is a 2019 psychological horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. The film follows Adelaide Wilson (Nyong'o) and her family, who are attacked by a group of menacing doppelgängers, called the ‘Tethered’.
Wendell & Wild is a 2022 American stop motion-animated horror comedy film directed by Henry Selick from a screenplay written by Selick and Jordan Peele, based on Selick's and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name. It stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the titular characters with Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, James Hong, and Ving Rhames in supporting roles. This was Selick's first feature film since Coraline (2009).
Art horror or arthouse horror is a sub-genre of both horror films and art-films. It explores and experiments with the artistic uses of horror.
Win Rosenfeld is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his collaborations with Jordan Peele.
Nope is a 2022 American neo-Western science fiction horror film written, directed, and produced by Jordan Peele, under his and Ian Cooper's Monkeypaw Productions banner. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as horse-wrangling siblings attempting to capture evidence of an unidentified flying object in Agua Dulce, California. Appearing in supporting roles are Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David.
Postmodern horror is a horror film related to the art and philosophy of postmodernism. Examples of this type of film includes George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and John Carpenter's slasher film Halloween.
Get Out (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album to the 2017 film of the same name directed by Jordan Peele. The film is scored by California-based Michael Abels, in his first feature composition. Prior working as a schoolteacher in the music department in California, Abels was recruited after Peele listened to one of his instrumental cue which blended a range of genres.
Black horror is a horror subgenre that focuses on African-American characters and narratives. It is largely a film genre. Black horror typically, but not always, has Black creators. It often has social and political commentary and compares racism and other lived experiences of Black Americans to common horror themes and tropes. Early entries in the genre include the 1940 Spencer Williams Jr. film Son of Ingagi and the 1968 George Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead, which is considered one of the first Black horror films for having the Black actor Duane Jones in its lead role. Blaxploitation horror films of the 1970s, namely Blacula (1972), and the vampire film Ganja & Hess (1973) became prominent examples of Black horror films in the 1970s. Other Black horror films appeared during the 1990s, notably the 1992 Bernard Rose film Candyman and the 1995 anthology film Tales from the Hood, which was directed by Rusty Cundieff and has been described as the "godfather of Black horror".
