Biography
Akela Cooper is an American screenwriter and television producer. She was raised in Hayti, Missouri, graduated from Truman State University and earned an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she was the first recipient of the NAACP/CBS Writer's Fellowship.
She began her career as a staff writer on Grimm and later wrote for and produced episodes of The 100, American Horror Story, Marvel's Luke Cage, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Her film work includes the screenplays for Hell Fest (2018), Malignant (2021), M3GAN (2022) and The Nun II (2023), the last co-written with Ian Goldberg and Richard Naing from her story. She co-created the M3GAN franchise with James Wan. Cooper was named in Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch list for 2021.
