Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress. Dunye is a lesbian and her work often concerns themes of race, sexuality, and gender, particularly issues relating to black lesbians.

Filmography

• 2026I Love Boosters — Thanks
• 2025Rainbow Girls — Executive Producer
• The Hunting Wives — Director
• Dead Boy Detectives — Director
• The Emperor of Ocean Park — Director
• American Gigolo — Director
• The Rookie: Feds — Director
• Pride — Director
• The Equalizer — Director
• Y: The Last Man — Director
• Bridgerton — Director
• Lovecraft Country — Director
• All Rise — Director
• The Umbrella Academy — Director
• Love Is___ — Director
• Manifest — Director
• You — Director
• Claws — Director
• Dear White People — Director
• 2017DiAna's Hair Ego Remix — Director
• Queen Sugar — Director
• Star — Director
• 2014Black Is Blue — Director
• 2014Brother From Another Time — Director
• The Fosters — Director
• 2013Valencia: The Movie/S — Director
• 2012Mommy Is Coming — Cabby, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2010The Owls — Carol, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2004My Baby's Daddy — Director
• 2002Truth Be Told — Writer
• 2001Stranger Inside — Director, Writer
• 1997The Watermelon Woman — Cheryl, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1996Greetings from Africa — Cheryl, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1993An Untitled Portrait — (voice), Director
• 1993Complicated Flesh — Director
• 1993Sex Fish
• 1993Strange Weather — Crystal
• 1993The Potluck and the Passion — Director, Writer
• 1992She Don't Fade — Cheryl / Shae Clarke, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
• 1992Vanilla Sex — Narrator, Director, Editor, Cinematography
• 1990Janine — Producer, Editor, Director, Writer
• Black Is Blue — Director, Writer
• The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye — herself, Director, Writer, Producer
• The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye — herslef, Director

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Hollywood Black — Self
• 2018Dykes, Camera, Action! — Self
• 2017Mansfield 66/67 — Self
• 2010Hooters! — Self
• 2003Sisters in Cinema — Self
• 1998Lavender Limelight — Self
• 1998Women of Vision — Self