Tim Story

Born 1970-03-13 · Los 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.