Antoine Fuqua is known to movie fans as the great American film producer, director, actor and even director of numerous music videos. Fuqua has been able to accumulate net worth valued at $18 million and nowadays he is considered to be one of the richest producers and directors in the United States. He has produced music videos for Chante Moore (“It’s Alright” and “Love’s Taken Over”), also for Prince (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”) and Christopher Williams (“All I see”). Also he is the director of movies “The Replacement Killers”, “Training Days”, “Brooklyn’s Finest”, “Shooter”, “King Arthur” and many others which have made him famous worldwide and raised the total of Antoine Fuqua’s net worth.
Antoine Fuqua Net Worth $18 Million
Antoine Fuqua was born on January 19, 1966, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. He attended electrical engineering school and was dreaming about flying jets in the military, however, Antoine’s career and the beginning of raising his net worth started in a different direction. In the show business world he has been active since 1992, when he took his first steps as the director of music videos for the songs of Prince and Toni Braxton. The direction of music videos gave him the experience he needed to start working with main stream movies. It needs to be mentioned that Fuqua came to the movie industry only after he showed himself very capable in the creation of music videos and built up his basic net worth making them.
The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua which helped him to rise to fame was “The Replacement Killers” released in 1998. This directorial debut was more than just simply successful as the movie starred Michael Rooker, Mira Sorvino, Kennetn Tsang and Chow Yun-fat. For the next several years his work wasn’t so successful, however, he managed to direct a comedy-crime film entitled “Bait” in 2002 with Jamie Foxx and David Morse starring.
Fuqua’s later successes enabled the famous director to build even higher net worth. In 2003 “Tears of the Sun” was released, and only one year later”King Arthur”, both tp worldwide acclaim . Many other movies appeared, and Fuqua’s net worth continues to rise nowadays as he continues his work as a great film director. He made “The Equalzer” in 2014 and right now his next movie “Southpaw” is being filmed to be released IN 2015.
As Fuqua became so successful in the movie industry, he has stopped making music videos. The last one he directed was in 2011, and was the “Mirror” by Lil Wayne, made after a break of four years since directing “Citizen Soldier” by 3 Doors Down.
Fuqua is also known as the person who works on numerous commercials. For example, he was a director of Reebok, Stanley Tools, Miller Genuine Draft and Armani commercials which helped him to earn more money towards his current net worth.
