Barry Michael Cooper(1958-2025)

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Writer
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Barry Michael Cooper is a producer and writer, known for New Jack City (1991), Sugar Hill (1993) and Above the Rim (1994) and She's Gotta Have It (2017-2019). A former investigative reporter for the Village Voice and Spin Magazine, Cooper was one of the first journalists to report on the crack-cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s.

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New Jack City

6.6

Movie

Writer

1991

Revocator

5.8

Movie

Writer

1993

Above the Rim

6.6

Movie

Writer

1994

Nola Darling n'en fait qu'à sa tête

6.9

TV Series

Producer

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Producer

Nola Darling n'en fait qu'à sa tête
6.9
TV Series
- supervising producer
- producer
- 2017–2019
Guilt...
Short
- producer
- 2019
American Gangster
7.7
TV Series
- producer
- 2008
Blood on the Wall$
- executive producer
- 2005

Writer

Trivia
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Cooper was the first African-American screenwriter in history to have two films ("Sugar Hill" February 1994, and "Above The Rim" March 1994) released not only in the same year, but a month apart from each other.