Tananarive Due

Acting

Tananarive Due

Born 1966-01-05 · Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Tananarive Priscilla Due (born January 5, 1966) is an American author, educator and filmmaker. Due won the American Book Award for her novel The Living Blood. She is also known as a film historian with expertise in Black horror.

Acting credits

Black Zombie poster
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From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.

Black Zombie

2026

Miles Underwater poster
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A coming of age story about a teenager whose ordinary day turns extraordinary, forcing him to take a leap of faith which will change his life forever.

Miles Underwater

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror poster
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Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

2019

Halloween in Hollywood poster
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Chris Hardwick hosts this epic night celebrating all things Halloween, including interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum and David Gordon about the film Halloween Ends, and special celebrity appearances from Blake Shelton, Terry Crews and more.

Halloween in Hollywood

2022

The Keeper poster
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A young girl moves in with her grandmother after her parents die, only to find herself in a haunted apartment building with a dark secret.

The Keeper

2025

Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman poster
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A critical analysis of Candyman (1992) by writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes.

Urban Legend: Unwrapping Candyman

2018

Exhumed: A History of Zombies poster
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There are few monsters more recognizable or popular than the zombie. The reanimated corpse has been a staple of folklore, film, literature and popular culture for nearly 200 years. Join Dr. Emily Zarka, who studies literature and film through the lens of monsters, as she deconstructs some of the most significant moments in zombie popular culture over the last two centuries to reveal what these creatures say about us. In New Orleans, Dr. Zarka explores how zombie folklore arose before it became mainstream and discovers more about the spiritual and historical roots of zombie lore.

Exhumed: A History of Zombies

2020

Behind the camera