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- Clement Virgo is one of Canada's foremost film directors. In 2015 he directed and co-wrote a six part miniseries adaptation of the Lawrence Hill novel The Book of Negroes (2015) which debuted to record-breaking numbers on the CBC in Canada and on BET in the U.S. and won twelve Canadian Screen Awards and was nominated for two U.S. Critics Choice Television Awards for Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series (Aunjanue Ellis). Additional accolades include the 2015 Cablefax Award and C21 International Drama Award for Best Miniseries and four 2015 NAACP Image Award Nominations including Best Miniseries, Best Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Best Actress (Ellis), and Best Writing (Virgo, Hill).
His TV directing credits include American Crime (2015), The Wire (2002), and the entire first season of the OWN network drama series Greenleaf (2016), on which he is also serving as Executive Producer with _Oprah Winfrey_. Virgo's feature films include the 2007 boxing drama Poor Boy's Game (2007), (Berlin, TIFF, AFF Audience Award), Lie with Me (2005 - Berlin, TIFF, Pusan), and Love Come Down (2000 -Berlin, Toronto). Virgo's first feature Rude (1995) premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard and went on to screen at numerous festivals around the world including Toronto, London and Sundance. Since 2010, Virgo has also presented a series of intimate annual talks to celebrate Black History Month in Toronto with such notable guests as Lee Daniels, _Norman Jewison_, _Spike Lee_, _Pam Grier_, John Singleton, and _Chris Tucker (I)_.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- In 1977, moved to Canada with his mother, a nurse's aide, his brother and two sisters. His father, a shoemaker, stayed in Jamaica.
- His interest in men's fashion led him to work as a window dresser for Harry Rosen in Toronto, one of his very first jobs.
- Lived in Regent Park, nicknamed Toronto's "ghetto", the largest public-housing estate of the city, known for its problems with drugs and crime.
- Owns his own production company, Conquering Lion Productions, along with business partner, Damon D'Oliveira.
- In 1991, was accepted in the Canadian Film Centre's full-time program.
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