---
name: "Cory Finley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cory-finley"
fi1m_id: "cory-finley"
imdb_id: "nm8083973"
tmdb_id: 1620987
wikidata_id: "Q50584029"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:43:29.354409+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Cory Finley

## Identity

Cory Finley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cory-finley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cory-finley
- **IMDb ID:** nm8083973
- **TMDB ID:** 1620987
- **Wikidata ID:** Q50584029
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Finley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50584029, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8083973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1620987

Director. Born 1 January 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1990, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Finley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50584029, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8083973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1620987

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Furious*](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Cory Finley is an American film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the black comedy *Thoroughbreds* (2017), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was adapted from his own play. He also directed the true crime dramedy *Bad Education* (2019), starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, which premiered on HBO.

Finley directed episodes of the television series *WeCrashed* (2022) and *Furious* (2026). He wrote and directed *Landscape with Invisible Hand* (2023). Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, he attended Yale College and began his career as a playwright, including as a member of the Youngblood group at Ensemble Studio Theater.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Furious* (2026), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Furious* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md)
- *The Plague* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Sometimes I Think About Dying* (2024), Thanks
- *Landscape with Invisible Hand* (2023), Writer, Director
- *WeCrashed* (2022), series, Director
- *Bad Education* (2019), Director
- *Sauna* (2018), Story
- *Thoroughbreds* (2018), Writer, Director
- *Burning Rainbow Farm*, Screenplay
- *Reasonable People*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Cory Finley](https://film.one/media/person/21958/gallery-5da99752dd43.jpg) Cory Finley — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Cory_Finley_at_the_2019_TIFF_premiere_of_Bad_Education_%2848810354686%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Catherine Curtin, Rafael Casal, Kayli Carter, Geraldine Viswanathan, Alex Wolff, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Allison Janney, Ray Romano, Cory Finley and Hari Dhillon at (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/21958/gallery-296ff9d56d5a.jpg) Catherine Curtin, Rafael Casal, Kayli Carter, Geraldine Viswanathan, Alex Wolff, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Allison Janney, Ray Romano, Cory Finley and Hari Dhillon at (2019) — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Bad_Education_01_%2848810354686%29.jpg/1280px-Bad_Education_01_%2848810354686%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/cory-finley