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Marie-Françoise Theodore
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Marie-Françoise Theodore
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Biography
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.

Filmography

7.462

Love Jones
1997-03-14

7.8

Lockdown: 2025
2021-07-02

Small Metal Jacket

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Small Metal Jacket
1992-09-23

2.786

Mob Rules
2011-05-17

5.167

Royce
1994-08-31

3

Set Apart
2009-01-19

Strange as Angels

7.2

Strange as Angels
2005-07-17

Voodoo Possession

3.107

Voodoo Possession
2014-01-14

90 Minutes of the Fever

0

90 Minutes of the Fever
2019-01-08

DWB: Dating While Black

2

DWB: Dating While Black
2018-12-18

7

C'mon Man
2012-06-26

6.3

A-X-L
2018-08-23

7

Dispel
2019-03-09

Her Deadly Sugar Daddy

3.7

Her Deadly Sugar Daddy
2020-09-20

0

The Last Word

Single Drunk Female

6.026

Single Drunk Female
2022-01-20

The Morning Show

7.764

The Morning Show
2019-11-01

7.625

The Orville
2017-09-10

How to Get Away with Murder

7.839

How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25

Only Murders in the Building

8.468

Only Murders in the Building
2021-08-31

7.5

Workaholics
2011-04-06

8.21

Station 19
2018-03-22

8.4

Chicago P.D.
2014-01-08