David Oyelowo and his wife Jessica’s Yoruba Saxon production banner has reached a multiyear, first-look deal to develop and produce features and series for Apple TV+.
Yoruba Saxon’s credits include Paramount’s “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” and “Captive”; HBO’s “Nightingale”; Fox Searchlight’s “A United Kingdom”; Relativity Media’s “Come Away”; FilmRise’s “Five Nights in Maine”; PBS’ “Ferguson Rises”; Bron’s “Solitary”; Disney+’s “The Return of The Rocketeer;” BBC’s “Biafra,” Netflix’s “The After” and “Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun” and Apple’s upcoming dramedy “Government Cheese.”
Yoruba Saxon is repped by CAA, and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.
In addition to starring in “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” “The After” and “Government Cheese,” Oyelowo also leads Apple TV+’s “Silo,” which has been renewed for a second season, alongside Rebecca Ferguson and Rashida Jones; Prime Video’s action thriller “Role Play,” which stars Kaley Cuoco; and Sony Pictures and Jeymes Samuel’s biblical times set epic “The Book of Clarence.”
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