Biography
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
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Roles across career
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Acting credits
4
Directing
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Writing
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Other crew
Most critically rated
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- 1
39 votesTheir Eyes Were Watching God
2005 · movie
- 2
11 votesCommandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940 · movie
- 3
8 votesAmerican Playhouse
1982 · tv
- 4
6 votesFieldwork Footage
1928 · movie
- 5
2 votesZora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 · movie
- 6
1 votesThe Gilded Six Bits
2001 · movie
- 7
1 votesEthnographic Films
1929 · movie
- 8
1 votesZora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 · movie
Career timeline
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