---
name: "Nile Rodgers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nile-rodgers"
fi1m_id: "nile-rodgers"
imdb_id: "nm0734755"
tmdb_id: 4613
wikidata_id: "Q497759"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 September 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T20:46:08.994559+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."
---

# Nile Rodgers

## Identity

Nile Rodgers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nile-rodgers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nile-rodgers
- **IMDb ID:** nm0734755
- **TMDB ID:** 4613
- **Wikidata ID:** Q497759
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Rodgers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734755/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4613

Composer. Born 19 September 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 September 1952, New York City, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Rodgers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734755/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4613

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Coming to America*](https://film.one/film/coming-to-america.md) (76)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Earth Girls Are Easy*](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Nile Rodgers is an American musician, record producer and composer. He co-founded the band Chic in 1977 with Bernard Edwards and has written, produced and performed on records that have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide.

Rodgers scored the 1988 film *Coming to America* and has composed for other films including *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988) and *Beverly Hills Cop III* (1994). He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a multiple Grammy Award winner.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Coming to America* (1988), Fi1m 76, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/coming-to-america.md)
- *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Cerrone - Supernature* (2025), as Guest
- *Opus* (2025), Executive Producer, Songs
- *Disco's Revenge* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2023* (2023), Actor
- *Coming 2 America* (2021), as Songs
- *Chic featuring Nile Rodgers au Festival Jazz à Vienne 2013* (2015), Actor
- *Chic feat. Nile Rogers - Electric Picnic* (2014), Actor
- *Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker* (2013), Actor
- *Best Of Night Of The Proms vol. 6* (2013), Actor
- *Chic: Live at the Budokan* (2009), as Guitar
- *Coming Back for More* (2009), Actor
- *Chic: Le Freak - Live* (2006), as Guitar
- *Nile Rodgers and Chic - Live at Montreux 2004* (2005), Actor
- *A Diva's Christmas Carol* (2000), as CEO of Record Label
- *Eventual Wife* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Public Enemy: Reflections of The Black Panthers* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *Beverly Hills Cop III* (1994), Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance, Music Producer
- *Blue Chips* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *What is House? An Insider's Look at Dance Music* (1991), Actor
- *White Hot* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *Earth Girls Are Easy* (1988), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/earth-girls-are-easy.md)
- *Coming to America* (1988), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/coming-to-america.md)
- *Alphabet City* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Soup for One* (1982), Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Nile Rodgers](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-fe13ae58a89a.jpg) Nile Rodgers — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Nile_Rodgers_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Nile_Rodgers_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nile Rodgers and Jerry Barnes during a Chic concert in Paris, september 10th 2013](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-a2348fd07533.jpg) Nile Rodgers and Jerry Barnes during a Chic concert in Paris, september 10th 2013 — Jmex, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Chic_2013.JPG/1280px-Chic_2013.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chic on Stage in Paris, September 10th 2013](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-7f333cdc4c43.jpg) Chic on Stage in Paris, September 10th 2013 — Jmex, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Chic_Paris2013.JPG/1280px-Chic_Paris2013.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chic on Stage in Paris, september 10th 2013](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-9374ae0dca72.jpg) Chic on Stage in Paris, september 10th 2013 — Jmex, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Chic_Paris201309.jpg/1280px-Chic_Paris201309.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Duran Duran - BST Hyde Park - Sunday 10th July 2022 With NIle Rodgers & Chic](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-c400a0879f61.jpg) Duran Duran - BST Hyde Park - Sunday 10th July 2022 With NIle Rodgers & Chic — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/DuranBSTHyde100722_%2810_of_64%29_%2852208831374%29.jpg/1280px-DuranBSTHyde100722_%2810_of_64%29_%2852208831374%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Duran Duran - BST Hyde Park - Sunday 10th July 2022 With NIle Rodgers & Chic](https://film.one/media/person/119497/gallery-5928d69eb627.jpg) Duran Duran - BST Hyde Park - Sunday 10th July 2022 With NIle Rodgers & Chic — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/DuranBSTHyde100722_%2811_of_64%29_%2852208831299%29.jpg/1280px-DuranBSTHyde100722_%2811_of_64%29_%2852208831299%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- Polar Music Prize 2024: Polar Music Prize (won)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won)
- Icon Award 2014: Icon Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

---
© 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/nile-rodgers