---
name: "Rodney Barnes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rodney-barnes"
fi1m_id: "rodney-barnes"
imdb_id: "nm0055756"
tmdb_id: 1214872
wikidata_id: "Q7356851"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T03:50:42.919181+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."
---

# Rodney Barnes

## Identity

Rodney Barnes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rodney-barnes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rodney-barnes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0055756
- **TMDB ID:** 1214872
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7356851
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Barnes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7356851, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214872

Producer. Born in Annapolis.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Also known as:**  P. Rodney Barnes , Rodney P. Barnes
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Barnes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7356851, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1214872

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Everybody Hates Chris*](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md) (80)

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## Biography

Rodney Barnes is an American screenwriter and producer. He was born on 19 September in Annapolis, Maryland, and attended Howard University in Washington, DC, before moving to Los Angeles in 1995 to pursue screenwriting.

Barnes began his television career as a writer and producer on *My Wife and Kids* (2001–2005). He went on to serve as co-executive producer and writer on *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005–2009), executive producer and head writer on *The Boondocks* (2005–2014), and writer or producer on series including *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), *American Gods* (2017), *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), *Heels* (2021) and *Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty* (2022). He has also written comic books and graphic novels such as *Killadelphia* and *Blacula: Return of the King*.

His work has earned a Peabody Award for an episode of *The Boondocks*, an American Film Institute Award for *Everybody Hates Chris*, and nominations from the Writers Guild of America, BET Comedy Awards and NAACP Image Awards.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), Fi1m 80, Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Heels* (2021), series, Writer
- *Wu-Tang: An American Saga* (2019), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), series, Writer
- *American Gods* (2017), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Boondocks* (2005), series, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer
- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)
- *My Wife and Kids* (2001), series, Writer
- *15 Minutes* (2001), Set Production Assistant
- *Blade* (1998), Set Production Assistant — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/blade.md)
- *Untitled Jordan Vogt-Roberts/Michael B. Jordan Project*, Screenplay
- *The Longest Yard*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Rodney Barnes](https://film.one/media/person/3350306/gallery-e0b95427bdc3.jpg) Rodney Barnes — Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Rodney_Barnes_%2852807488087%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Rodney Barnes at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2024](https://film.one/media/person/3350306/gallery-66beeb2df5a6.jpg) Rodney Barnes at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2024 — Tim Blackmon for Galaxy Con, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Rodney_Barnes_%2853628125005%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Rodney Barnes speaking at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/3350306/gallery-96f1e86d4acf.jpg) Rodney Barnes speaking at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Rodney_Barnes_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Rodney_Barnes_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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