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Gender: Male

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Homepage: http://rhysernst.com/

Movie Involvements: 13

TV Involvements: 3


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Transparent
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6

Transparent

(2014) Director
Adam
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4

Adam

(2019) Director
This Is Me
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10

This Is Me

(2015) Supervising Producer
Unison
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0

Unison

(2024) Assistant Camera
She Gone Rogue
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0

She Gone Rogue

(2012) Director
Umbrella
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0

Umbrella

(2018) Director
Dear Lou Sullivan
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0

Dear Lou Sullivan

(2014) Director
The Thing
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5

The Thing

(2012) Writer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2014 Waiter
2012 N/A
2010 House Party Guest / Interview
2009 N/A
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2021 Executive Producer
2015 Supervising Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2012 Writer
2009 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Camera

Year Role Movie/Tv
Assistant Camera
Year Role Movie/Tv

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