Angelica Nwandu (born 1989) is the founder of the Shade Room (TSR), an

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-based media company focused on celebrity gossip. The site has since branched out into covering politics and focusing on

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news. The Shade Room has over 20 million subscribers across all platforms. Nwandu was dubbed "The Oprah of our generation" by

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and a "celebrity culture savant" by Complex. '' Time'' magazine named TSR in the 30 most influential on the internet in 2016. '' The New York Times'' called the Shade Room "Instagram's TMZ".

Early life and education

Angelica Nwandu was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to Nigerian parents. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University.

Career

The Shade Room

In 2016, '' Forbes'' named Nwandu to its

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list, saying she "revolutionized celebrity gossip" with the founding of the Shade Room. '' Cosmopolitan'' reports that the Shade Room's followers across platforms now total more than eight million people. TechCrunch named her to its list of "18 Female Founders Who Killed It in 2015" and

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says Nwandu is "figuring things out faster than everyone else."

Film

Nwandu has also been a

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fellow and Time Warner

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fellow 2014 selected for the January 2014 Screenwriters Lab. The project, developed with co-writer Jordana Spiro, is called '' Night Comes On''. It premiered at the 2018

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where it won the NEXT Innovator award. Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the film for distribution, with a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release set for August 3, 2018.

References

External links

The Shade Room
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nwandu, Angelica Living people 21st-century American non-fiction writers American online journalists American people of Nigerian descent 1989 births American women journalists Place of birth missing (living people) Loyola Marymount University alumni Sundance Film Festival award winners 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American screenwriters