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Ali LeRoi

Producer, Actor, Writer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn February 12, 1962 (63 years)
Ali LeRoi is the Emmy Award-winning executive producer/writer of the critically acclaimed comedy Everybody Hates Chris, a series inspired by the childhood experiences of comedian Chris Rock. He is a Golden Globe nominee, a 2007 NAACP Image Award winner for best writer in a comedy series, as well as a winner of the 2007 AFI TV Program of the Year Award.

LeRoi served as a producer and writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which he won an Emmy, a Cable Ace Award, and received five Emmy Award nominations. He is an NAACP Awards Best Director nominee for his work on Everybody Hates Chris, and has directed segments for the 77th Annual Academy Awards, as well as for the Orlando Jones Show.

Major motion picture credits include producing and co-writing Head of State and Down to Earth, as well as producing cult-favorite, Pootie Tang.

Recent projects include producing, writing and directing, the television adaptation of Ice Cube’s hit film Are We There Yet? for TBS, as well as developing a project at HBO with music industry legend Irv Gotti, and producing a slate of animation and sitcom projects for television and cable with film star and business partner Orlando Jones, under their newly created F. Masse Media banner.

Originally from Chicago, LeRoi currently lives in Los Angeles.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Are We There Yet?

Known For

  • Everybody Hates Chris
  • Down to Earth
  • Head of State
  • Pootie Tang
  • Are We There Yet?
  • Half Brothers
  • Survivor's Remorse
  • So Help Me Todd
  • American Refugee
  • The Chris Rock Show
  • The Game (2021)
  • The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
  • Everybody Still Hates Chris
  • Chris Rock: Bring the Pain
  • Turner & Hooch
  • Real Husbands of Hollywood: More Kevin, More Problems
  • The Last O.G.
  • Extended Family

Ali LeRoi Filmography

2025
Leslie Jones: Life Part 2 · as Executive Producer
2024
Everybody Still Hates Chris (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2019
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson · as Executive Producer
2014
Survivor's Remorse (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2010
2005
Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2003
2001
2001
Down to Earth · as Associate Producer
1997

2010
Are We There Yet? (TV Series) · as Tv Show Announcer
2005
Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) · as Tv Announcer
2003
Head of State · as Crazy Hostile Dreadlock Voter
2001
Down to Earth · as Crazy Hostile Dreadlock Guy
1997
The Gregory Hines Show (TV Series) · as Eric
1997
The Chris Rock Show (TV Series) · as Various
1996

2005
2003
2003
Head of State · as Screenplay
2001
Down to Earth · as Screenplay
1997
1995

2023
See It Loud: The History of Black Television (TV Series) · as Self - Co-Creator - Everybody Hates Chris
2023
2014
2014
Unsung Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self
2011
2011
2011
On Story (TV Series) · as Self
2009
Life After (TV Series) · as Self
2005
Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self
1992
HBO First Look (TV Series) · as Self
1987
Biography (TV Series) · as Self
1981
An Evening At the Improv (TV Series) · as Self

2024
Everybody Still Hates Chris (TV Series) · as Original Series Creator
2020
Half Brothers · as Story
2014
Survivor's Remorse (TV Series) · as Written By
2010
Are We There Yet? (TV Series) · as Developer
2005
The 77th Annual Academy Awards · as Special Material Written By
2003
Head of State · as Second Unit Director
1975
Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Additional Sketch By

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