Tim Story

Born March 13, 1970Los Angeles, California, USA

Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. He is best known for Barbershop (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and the Ride Along franchise. He has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie in 2006 and 2013. He is a Los Angeles native and the founder of The Story Company, a production company co-founded with his future wife, Vicky, in 1996. He is the first African-American film director to have grossed over one billion USD at the box office.