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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.
Boots Riley was born on 1 April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Sorry to Bother You (2018), I'm a Virgo (2023) and The Losers (2010).
Jun 22, 2023 · It’s a seven-episode ride about a 13-foot-tall, comic-book-obsessed Black teenager named Cootie (Jharrel Jerome) who, after years of being hidden from the world by his adoptive parents for fear...
Jul 20, 2018 · 'Sorry to Bother You' writer and director Boots Riley talks about art as activism and how his dystopian fantasy of a movie is actually about optimism.
Jun 23, 2023 · NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer, director, activist and hip-hop artist Boots Riley about his career and his new Prime Video series, I'm A Virgo.
Jun 23, 2023 · Boots Riley Radically Rethinks the Superhero. The Bay Area rapper and activist turned filmmaker brings his singular vision to prestige TV with the new series I’m a Virgo. By Eric Sullivan...
Jun 24, 2023 · When Boots Riley was 12 years old, he wanted to be a superhero. Growing up in the Eighties in East Oakland with a civil rights attorney father, the younger Riley was drawn to a...
