Boots Riley
Birthday
1971/01/01 (54 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
The Coup
Biography
Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Sorry to Bother You (released July 2018), which he also wrote. In 2023, the television show I'm a Virgo premiered, which Riley wrote and directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Boots Riley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(2023) Fremont
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
(2009) First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture
as ---
(2008) In Prison My Whole Life
as Self
(2013) 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
as Self
(2022) I'm Charlie Walker
as Bartender Ray
(2000) Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
as Himself
(2015) Rope a Dope 2
as Mayor
(2006) The Coup: The Best Coup DVD Ever
as Self
(2015) Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self