Karena Evans

Karena Evans
Born (1995-12-17) December 17, 1995 (age 28)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
Years active2016–present
Websitekarenaevans.com

Karena Evans (born December 17, 1995) is a Canadian director and actress. She garnered recognition for directing the music videos for Drake's 2018 Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles, "God's Plan", "Nice for What", and "In My Feelings". Evans won the 2018 Much Music Video Award for Best Director and became the first woman to receive the Prism Prize's Lipsett Award for music video direction.[1]

Evans has acted in the television series Mary Kills People and had a starring role in the 2018 indie film Firecrackers,[2] which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2020, Evans directed the premiere episode for the Starz drama series P-Valley.[3] She directed an episode each of the fourth and fifth seasons of the FX crime drama Snowfall,[4][5] and she directed the first two episodes of the HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Karena Evans: How I Made It as a Director and Actor - FLARE". www.flare.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2020. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  3. ^ "Karena Evans busts through Hollywood ceilings with P-Valley". nowtoronto.com. July 9, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  4. ^ "Director Karena Evans on Moving to Television, Working on 'P-Valley' and 'Snowfall' | Watch Less Ep. 37". Complex. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  5. ^ "Departures" at IMDb
  6. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (November 2, 2020). "'Gossip Girl': Karena Evans To Direct First Two Episodes Of HBO Max Series Reboot". Deadline. Retrieved November 3, 2020.