---
name: "Radha Blank"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/radha-blank"
fi1m_id: "radha-blank"
imdb_id: "nm0087523"
tmdb_id: 2379700
wikidata_id: "Q85889188"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "1 September 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-03T01:44:43.454980+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."
---

# Radha Blank

## Identity

Radha Blank

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/radha-blank
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** radha-blank
- **IMDb ID:** nm0087523
- **TMDB ID:** 2379700
- **Wikidata ID:** Q85889188
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Blank, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85889188, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087523/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2379700

Producer and director. Born 1 September 1976 in New York, New York, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 1 September 1976, New York, New York, U.S.
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Blank, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85889188, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0087523/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2379700

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Forty-Year-Old Version*](https://film.one/film/the-forty-year-old-version.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Radha Blank is an American writer, director, producer and actress. She wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2020 feature film *The Forty-Year-Old Version*, in which she plays a struggling playwright who turns to rapping.

Blank began her career as a playwright. Her Off-Broadway play *Seed* received critical acclaim, and she has received a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and an NEA New Play Development Award. She has also written episodes of the television series *Empire* (2015), *She's Gotta Have It* (2017) and *The Get Down*, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film *Monster* (2021). She performs as a comedian and rapper under the name RadhaMUSprime.

For *The Forty-Year-Old Version*, Blank won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters and Directors Labs.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Forty-Year-Old Version* (2020), Fi1m 80, as Radha — [page](https://film.one/film/the-forty-year-old-version.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Monster* (2021), Writer
- *The Forty-Year-Old Version* (2020), as Radha · Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-forty-year-old-version.md)
- *She's Gotta Have It* (2017), series, Writer
- *Timeless* (2016), series, as Bessie Smith
- *Empire* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Backyardigans* (2004), series, as Songs
- *Mixing Nia* (1998), as Loquesha

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