---
name: "Nia DaCosta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nia-dacosta"
fi1m_id: "nia-dacosta"
imdb_id: "nm4804442"
tmdb_id: 1795072
wikidata_id: "Q61995088"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "8 November 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:29:27.389386+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."
---

# Nia DaCosta

## Identity

Nia DaCosta

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nia-dacosta
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nia-dacosta
- **IMDb ID:** nm4804442
- **TMDB ID:** 1795072
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61995088
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_DaCosta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61995088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4804442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795072

Director. Born 8 November 1989 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 8 November 1989, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nia_DaCosta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61995088, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4804442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1795072

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*28 Years Later: The Bone Temple*](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md) (74)
- **Disney+:** [*The Marvels*](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Nia DaCosta is an American filmmaker. She was born on 8 November 1989 in Brooklyn, New York City, and studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Her feature debut *Little Woods* (2018) won the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She directed episodes of the series *Top Boy* (2019) and the film *Candyman* (2021). DaCosta wrote and directed *The Marvels* (2023) and directed *Hedda* (2025) and *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, apnews.com, variety.com, cnn.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md)
- *The Marvels* (2023), Fi1m 63, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026), Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md)
- *Hedda* (2025), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Too Much* (2025), series, as Jocelyn
- *The Marvels* (2023), Writer, Director — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-marvels.md)
- *Candyman* (2021), Screenplay, Director
- *Industry* (2020), series, as Beye Cyalader — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/industry.md)
- *Top Boy* (2019), series, Director
- *Little Woods* (2019), Director, Screenplay
- *Odessa* (2014), Second Unit Director
- *A Perfect Man* (2013), Additional Camera
- *Night and Day* (2013), Director, Editor, Producer
- *Driver*, Director
- *Sex Criminals*, series, Director
- *Sleeping with the Enemy*, Director, Writer
- *The Water Dancer*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-fef23c4f2f0e.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Nia_DaCosta_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_11.jpg/1280px-Nia_DaCosta_on_the_Green_Carpet_at_the_2025_Zurich_Film_Festival_11.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-7f0f18b92405.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-81ef39fbd9b3.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-fbebcec3dff8.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-8ab8821b092c.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-4ab0f86371ee.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB
- ![Nia DaCosta](https://film.one/media/person/7347/gallery-e5cd83205798.jpg) Nia DaCosta — Image via TMDB

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