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McQueen in 2014, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Steve Rodney P. McQueen
Place of Birth: Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 9 October, 1969
Ethnicity: African-Grenadian, African-Trinidadian
Steve McQueen is a British film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He is the first black person to direct a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture, 12 Years a Slave , 2013.
His family is Grenadian and Trinidadian. He is married to Dutch cultural critic Bianca Stigter, with whom he has two children.