Akilah Hughes Biography
Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and YouTuber based in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Edgewood, Kentucky and was raised in the Northern Kentucky area. She attended Berea College in Berea, KY where she graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in Broadcasting. Akilah moved to New York in 2012 to pursue comedy, attending the Upright Citizens Brigade on scholarship.
She's gone on to write and star in videos on her own YouTube channel, MTV, Fusion, Vh1, Elite Daily, Oxygen, Allure Magazine, Elle Magazine, and many others. Akilah Hughes is a Sundance Episodic Story Labs Alum for a half-hour comedy series. A book of her essays will be published by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin in 2019.
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‘Severance’ Season 2 Continues its Compelling, Brain Twisting Portrait of a Strange Corporate Netherworld....
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Pamela Anderson is affecting to watch in slight ‘The Last Showgirl’. While Pamela Anderson gives...
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‘Hard Truths’ has Director Mike Leigh Reunited with Actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste for a Caustic, Funny...
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‘Wolf Man’ Starts Out with a Ferocious Bite and Ends with a Whimper. Director Leigh Whannell creates...
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‘One of Them Days’ is an Entertaining Tale of Friends Who Must Scramble to Find the Rent. The raucous...
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'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera' Is Good but Lacks What Made the Original Great. While a solid heist movie,...
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‘Better Man’ Tells the Story of Pop Singer Robbie Williams in Unique Fashion. Michael Gracey’s...
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Nicole Kidman blows up her safe space in erotic, provocative ‘Babygirl’. Nicole Kidman’s fearless...
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‘What If…?’ Season 3 Closes Out the MCU’s Multiverse Series in Entertaining Style. Jeffrey Wright’s...
