Jordan Peele

Jordan Howarth Peele is an American actor, comedian and film director. Before becoming a film director, Peele has starred in TV shows such as Mad TV and Fargo. Peele eventually rose to famed acclaim thanks to his directorial debut Get Out

History
Born in New York, Peele was raised by a single mother (who was white while his father was black) and attended a computer school in Manhattan, eventually graduating from The Calhoun School and going to Sarah Lawrence College before dropping out two years to form a comedy duo with his college roommate Keegan-Michael Key.

Peele and Key joined the show Mad TV in 2003, instantly being cast together thanks to their comedy chemistry. After five seasons, Peele left the show. Eventually, Peele and Key created their own comedy series "Key & Peele", which became a huge success with viewers. Peele also starred in a minor role in the first season of the black comedy, crime-drama series Fargo.

In 2017, Peele made his first feature film, Get Out, which he has claimed to be heavily influenced by George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", due to what the film ended up saying about race. Although Romero has claimed not to have made the film as a form of racial commentary, Peele fully intended this to be the case for Get Out. Peele would cast British actor Daniel Kaluuya as the lead role, who's performance alongside the plot and setting made the film a huge success and what made Peele rise to famed acclaim.

Get Out was nominated four awards, three for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Peele and Best Actor for Kaluuya. Peele is currently set to develop The Twilight Zone in 2019, the third reboot of the original 1959-1964 series.