Ryan Coogler’s Wife Zinzi Evans: Everything To Know About ‘Black Panther’ Director’s Marriage

• Ryan Coogler directed some ‘Black Panther’ and its sequel ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
• He joined Zinzi Evans, his assemblage sweetheart and an American Sign Language interpreter, successful 2016
• The mates launched a multimedia institution called Proximity Media successful 2021

Ryan Coogler brought the satellite an incredible sequel to the 2018 Marvel smash hit Black Panther with 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a feat immoderate called intolerable without late star Chadwick Boseman. The 36-year-old Oakland, California autochthonal managed to seizure the essence of Chadwick for the film, each portion paying tribute to him done an unthinkable formed featuring Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright and newcomer Dominique Thorne. The effect was a Marvel Cinematic Universe masterpiece.

Ryan Coogler has been joined to Zinzi Evans since 2016. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

The young Black filmmaker, who began his vocation by moving with Michael B Jordan successful the play Fruitvale Station and aboriginal directed him successful Creed (as good arsenic the archetypal Black Panther), made past with the superhero movie, as Black Panther scored 7 Oscar nominations — including Best Picture, a archetypal for a superhero movie — and winning 3 for Original Score, Costumes and Production Design. Notably, costume decorator Ruth E. Carter and accumulation decorator Hannah Beachler became the first-ever Black winners successful their respective categories.

With Ryan’s Hollywood trajectory taking off, fans are excited to larn much astir the precise backstage artist, including his emotion life. Let’s instrumentality a heavy dive into his matrimony to Zinzi Evans, whom helium wed successful 2016. Keep speechmaking for much connected Zinzi, below.

Zinzi Is An American Sign Language Interpreter

While Ryan is creating movie magic, Zinzi is doing portion of the same. The California State University Fresno grad stays engaged astatine producing and adjunct directing successful the amusement field, according to her IMDB. She is besides reportedly a freelance American Sign Language interpreter.

Zinzi & Ryan Are College Sweethearts

Zinzi Evans and Ryan Coogler were large successful 2019. (MEGA)

Back successful 2018, Ryan revealed helium and Zinzi were assemblage sweethearts, and that she supported him with his screenwriting dreams successful the champion mode possible.

“My wife, she was my miss astatine the time, [and] they had a bundle wherever you could constitute screenplays. I was trying to constitute successful Microsoft Word. It’s intolerable due to the fact that your format gotta beryllium right,” helium said during an interrogation with Hot 97. “I was broke, playing shot connected the small assistance money. And my woman scrapped unneurotic immoderate food and bought maine Final Draft, which is the bundle that you constitute your movies on. And she got maine that.”

The Couple Were Expecting A Child In 2019

At the 91st Academy Awards amusement successful February 2019, Ryan and Zinzi showed up connected the reddish carpet looking similar they were expecting a babe sometime soon. The mates had not revealed the enactment of the kid astatine the time, according to Essence, nor has immoderate connection happened connected the commencement since then. However, the outlet reported astatine the clip that Ryan appeared to beryllium leaning towards welcoming a small girl. “I recovered I privation daughters real, existent bad,” helium told The YBF. “Like plural. I thought, making Fruitvale Station, I privation kids. But like, connected this [‘Black Panther’], I person to person immoderate daughters.”