---
name: "Zinzi Coogler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zinzi-coogler"
fi1m_id: "zinzi-coogler"
imdb_id: "nm3362858"
tmdb_id: 2246303
wikidata_id: "Q137856366"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "18 April 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T07:55:27.027853+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."
---

# Zinzi Coogler

## Identity

Zinzi Coogler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zinzi-coogler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zinzi-coogler
- **IMDb ID:** nm3362858
- **TMDB ID:** 2246303
- **Wikidata ID:** Q137856366
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinzi_Coogler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137856366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3362858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2246303

Producer. Born 18 April 1985 in Oakland, California, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 18 April 1985, Oakland, California, U.S.
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Also known as:** Zinzi Evans Coogler, زنزي كوغلر
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Drama 2, History 1, Horror 1, Sport 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $653m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinzi_Coogler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137856366, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3362858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2246303

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Sinners*](https://film.one/film/sinners.md) (79)

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

## Biography

Zinzi Coogler (née Evans) is an American film producer. She served as lead producer on the horror film *Sinners* (2025), for which she shared a Golden Globe Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. She was executive producer on *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021) and *Creed III* (2023).

Coogler co-founded the production company Proximity Media with her husband, filmmaker Ryan Coogler, and producer Sev Ohanian. The company has produced projects including *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), *Stephen Curry: Underrated* (2023), *Ironheart* (2025) and *Eyes of Wakanda* (2025). She previously worked as an American Sign Language interpreter and studied communicative sciences and deaf studies at California State University, Fresno.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Sinners* (2025), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/sinners.md)
- *Creed III* (2023), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Eyes of Wakanda* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Ironheart* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Sinners* (2025), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/sinners.md)
- *Stephen Curry: Underrated* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Anthem* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Creed III* (2023), Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/creed-iii.md)
- *Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022), Thanks — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/black-panther-wakanda-forever.md)
- *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Judas and the Black Messiah* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/judas-and-the-black-messiah.md)
- *Locks* (2009), Associate Producer, First Assistant Director
- *Untitled Sundance Institute Project*, series, Executive Producer
- *Doppelgänger*, Producer

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