Akosua Busia

Akosua Busia

1966-12-30 Ghana 20 Credits

Biography

Akosua Busia was born on December 30, 1966 in Accra, Ghana. She is an actress and director, known for The Color Purple (1985), Tears of the Sun (2003) and Low Blow (1986). She was previously married to John Singleton.

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Ascension Day

Ascension Day

2007

Director

Directing

A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.

Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

2003

as Patience

6.9
Acting

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between fo...

Beloved

Beloved

1998

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...

Ill Gotten Gains

Ill Gotten Gains

1997

as Fey

2.0
Acting

WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but...

Mad City

Mad City

1997

as Diane

6.2
Acting

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Rosewood

Rosewood

1997

as Jewel

6.5
Acting

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

New Jack City

New Jack City

1991

as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infi...

Brother Future

Brother Future

1991

as Caroline

6.0
Acting

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.

The George McKenna Story

The George McKenna Story

1988

as Cynthia Byers

6.2
Acting

Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore ed...

The Seventh Sign

The Seventh Sign

1988

as Penny Washburn

6.0
Acting

Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse ...

Saxo

Saxo

1988

as Puppet

5.0
Acting

A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, w...

A Special Friendship

A Special Friendship

1987

as Mary Bowser

Acting

During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery...

Native Son

Native Son

1986

as Bessie

5.2
Acting

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teen...

Low Blow

Low Blow

1986

as Karma

4.6
Acting

Joe Wong is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam ...

Crossroads

Crossroads

1986

as Woman at Boardinghouse

7.4
Acting

A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

1985

as Nettie

7.8
Acting

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...

Badge of the Assassin

Badge of the Assassin

1985

as Ruth

5.0
Acting

Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police dete...

Louisiana

Louisiana

1984

as Ivy

4.1
Acting

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have b...

The Final Terror

The Final Terror

1983

as Vanessa

5.1
Acting

A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf...

Ashanti

Ashanti

1979

as The Senoufo Girl

5.8
Acting

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and t...