- Sean Baker is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is an award-winning writer/director/producer known for Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017). Sean's latest feature, Red Rocket, premiered at Cannes on July 14, 2021. Red Rocket was acquired by A24 for theatrical and home entertainment release.
Baker is also the co-creator of the long-running comedy show Greg the Bunny (2005) which had incarnations on IFC TV, FOX and MTV Warren the Ape (2010).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Cre Film
- Spouse
- RelativesStephonik(Sibling)
- Shooting his films on an iPhone.
- His films often feature donuts in some capacity.
- Makes films about immigrants and sex workers.
- He considered casting Dakota Johnson and her real-life grandmother Tippi Hedren together in his film Starlet (2012) before deciding on Besedka Johnson and Dree Hemingway.
- Directed 1 actor to an Oscar nomination: Willem Dafoe, who was nominated for The Florida Project (2017).
- Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2018.
- Has two dogs named Bunsen and Boonee.
- Older brother of Stephonik.
- [Sex work should be] decriminalized and not in any way regulated, because it's a sex worker's body and it's up to them to decide how they will use it in their livelihood.
- I became friends with [sex workers] and realized there were a million stories from that world. If there is one intention with all of these films, I would say it's by telling human stories, by telling stories that are hopefully universal. It's helping remove the stigma that's been applied to this livelihood, that's always been applied to this livelihood.
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