Numa Perrier

Numa Perrier

Born: December 14, 1984
Numa Perrier (born December 14, 1984) is a Haitian-American actress, director, writer, producer and visual artist. She is the founder of House of Numa and co-founder of Black&Sexy TV. Her first feature film, Jezebel, premiered at SXSW in 2019 and was released on Netflix in 2020.

Movies for Numa Perrier...

The Perfect Find
Title: The Perfect Find
Character: Pearl
Released: June 23, 2023
Type: Movie
After a high-profile firing, everything is at stake for 40-year-old Jenna: her career, her ticking biological clock, and her bank account. Her fashion career comeback hits a snag when she falls for a charming, much younger coworker — who happens to be her boss’s son. As sparks fly, Jenna must decide if she’ll risk it all on a secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback.
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First Time Female Director
Title: First Time Female Director
Character: Maya
Released: June 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Writer Sam is thrust into the role of director at a local theater after her predecessor gets fired. Barely making it through each rehearsal, Sam struggles to wrangle her eclectic cast while trying different tactics to make her play a success.
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Fuzzy Head
Title: Fuzzy Head
Character: Marian
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really happened and at last, undo all that's been done.
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The Island
Title: The Island
Released: October 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Zora, a young black woman, discovers that her father has been murdered during her family’s luxury vacation in Caribbean. With the help of her surviving family members, Zora must save herself from dying at the hands of the beautiful, Martisha and avoid the mythical obstacles throughout the island. During this journey, Zora learns that she is even more powerful than she thought.
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Sunday's Child
Title: Sunday's Child
Character: Joy
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Esi is a 25 year old, queer, biracial woman. Growing up in a conservative town in Missouri with immigrant parents, her sexuality and desire to be a photographer have become laced with shame and guilt. Six months after moving to LA, we find Esi isolated and disconnected from world around her. After another day of feeling invisible as a PA, Esi stumbles upon a vivid house party of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). For the first time in her life, Esi is welcomed into a community where she can let down her walls, let go of societal and family pressures and begin to embrace her true self.
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Jezebel
Title: Jezebel
Character: Sabrina
Released: January 3, 2020
Type: Movie
A true story. In the last days of her mother’s life, 19-year-old Tiffany crashes with five family members in a Las Vegas studio apartment. In order to make ends meet, her sister, a phone sex operator, introduces her to the world of fetish cam girls.
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Una Great Movie
Title: Una Great Movie
Character: Susan
Released: June 8, 2019
Type: Movie
As a screenwriter takes notes from Hollywood executives, her beautiful diverse movie about a black American woman traveling to Mexico, slowly becomes a romantic comedy with an all-white cast. A quirky cerebral look into commercialism and greed, juxtaposed with a heartwarming movie that challenges stereotypes.
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Title: SMILF
Character: Elsie
Released: November 5, 2017
Type: TV
A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
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Jerico
Title: Jerico
Character: Sweet Georgia Perkins
Released: April 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of best friends who set out on a dangerous, but comedic journey that challenges the restrictions of a Jim Crow South to fulfill their dreams.
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Beautiful Destroyer
Title: Beautiful Destroyer
Character: Leigh
Released: December 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Dedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist Jake Morrison is trained to help individuals cope with trauma. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake finds himself going down a road that he never imagined. The NYPD's newest inmate, Leigh, is a woman scarred by a devastating childhood. She witnessed her mother's brutal murder at the hands of the woman who raised her from then on. Victoria is a ruthless drug lord who forces Leigh to live a life ruled by lies, betrayal and murder. Only when Leigh meets Greg does she start to understand the true meaning of love, but it might be too late.
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In The Morning
Title: In The Morning
Character: Bly
Released: September 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Simply stated, In The Morning is about love and transitions. It examines the complexities of love from the perspective of three women in the midst of some hard won self-transformation. It’s a mood piece that weaves together three stories about personal growth and the power of choice and action.
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Florida Water
Title: Florida Water
Character: Michaelya
Released: August 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Numa Perrier reimagines the story and moments in a distinct photograph of her mother. What results is a complex merging of memory, absence, and imagery set against the backdrop of Port Au Prince, Haiti.
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Judi: A Series of Memories
Title: Judi: A Series of Memories
Character: Tiffany
Released: May 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The provocative portrayal of a sugar addicted diabetic. Through the mind of her daughter/caretaker we see and experience the disturbing elements of their relationship to each other and the disease.
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Resident Demon
Title: Resident Demon
Character: Nurse
Released: April 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Soon after purchasing their first home, two newlyweds realize they're not the only ones living there … but their "squatter" is no ordinary being. Sharing their space is the spirit of a female serial killer who took her own life in the bathtub while soaking in her victims' blood.
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Midas Touch
Title: Midas Touch
Character: Tina Marshall
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The film will focus on Lauren Simmons’ journey as the youngest-ever equity trader to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, only the second Black woman in history to fill that role.
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Hollyweird
Title: Hollyweird
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two outsiders try to make it through the weirdness of being Latino in Hollywood-- one by lying to himself, the other by lying to the world.