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Rhys Ernst

Director, Producer, Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1982 (44 years)
Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist. Ernst was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing the webseries This Is Me. He created the award-winning trans history web series We’ve Been Around, and is a Producer, Director on Amazon’s Transparent; he also created the Transparent title sequence. Ernst has shown work in the Whitney Biennial, Sundance, Oberhausen, and The Hammer Museum; he has won awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival and the LA Transgender Film Festival; he has won two GLAAD Awards, was a Point Scholar, a Project Involve Fellow, and was awarded the Point Foundation Horizon Award and the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on LGBTQ representation in the media. He lives in Los Angeles and is the director of the forthcoming feature ADAM.

Known For

  • Transparent
  • Adam
  • Death and Bowling
  • This Is Me

Rhys Ernst Filmography

2019
2015
This Is Me (TV Series)
2014
Transparent (TV Series)
2012

2021
Death and Bowling · as Executive Producer
2014
Transparent (TV Series)
2012

2014
Transparent (TV Series) · as Waiter
2012
2010
The Owls · as House Party Guest / Interview

2016
The VICE Guide to Film (TV Series) · as Self

2015
This Is Me (TV Series) · as Supervising Producer

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