Jordan Peele

Often works with Keegan-Michael Key
His films include psychological horror
His films often focus on race
His films often take place in the suburbs
Frequently references African American history, culture and both historical and contemporary figures

As a child, Jordan Peele appeared on a March 1994 ABC News special called "President Clinton Answering Children's Questions". The question he asked President Clinton, "Um, yeah, I was just wondering, how can you help the families where there's a mom, and she's taking care of a kid or kids, and the father isn't willing or isn't able to pay child support?," was inspired by his own family's situation.
In 2018, he became the first African-American screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He won the award for Get Out (2017).
He and comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key made cameos as 'gangstas' in the music video for 'Weird Al' Yankovic's parody "White & Nerdy" (2006).
He was so insulted when Sony offered him the role of Poop in The Emoji Movie (2017) that this inspired him to retire from acting and focus entirely on being a screenwriter and film director.
After his feature film writing/directing debut Get Out (2017) debuted to near-unanimous critical acclaim and blockbuster box office earnings, Peele announced that he had up to four other films that would be horror features that, like his first film (which dealt with racism) would address social issues through a genre framework. Producer Jason Blum said separately that his Blumhouse production group would make all of those films with Peele.

[Barack Obama] is the best thing ever to happen to black nerds. Up until Obama, it was basically Urkel and the black guy from Revenge of the Nerds - Lamar. Other than that, we had no role models. So he made us cool.
[on being biracial] Growing up, until really last year, I don't know that I would have readily brought up my white mother to anyone. It was not something I'm embarrassed by, but to announce that was synonymous to some black people to saying, "I think I'm better than you." This whole thing has felt almost like a coming out as biracial - saying this is a thing, we exist, and this is a future.
[on Key and Peele (2012)] I love dishing it out to everybody, and I love doing that on the show. But Keegan and I are usually perceived as African-American, and those characters are our bread and butter. Yes, we make fun of a lot of black people, but we make fun of a wide variety of black people because we don't like this idea that black people are a monolith, that there's only one type of black people.
Keegan and I go day to day: One day we're like in an almost racial utopia, and one day that feels like we're living in the 1950s.
[2013] I no longer answer to [the name] Key.