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Millicent Shelton | |
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| Born | January 29, 1966 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, music video director and television director |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Website | millicentshelton |
Millicent B. Shelton (born January 29, 1966) is an American music video, television and film director.
Shelton began her career as a wardrobe production assistant on the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989). She went on to direct music videos for artists such as Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, CeCe Peniston and Salt-n-Pepa.
Her other directing credits include the motion picture Ride (1998) and episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, The Bernie Mac Show, Girlfriends, The Walking Dead, Castle, Californication, My Name Is Earl, 90210, Men of a Certain Age, Pan Am, Leverage, and 30 Rock, for which she became the first African-American woman to receive a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the episode "Apollo, Apollo".[1]
She is an alumna of Princeton University[2] and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.[1]
- ^ a b c "Millicent Shelton". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on June 11, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
- ^ Millicent Shelton at FilmBug.com