Rhys Ernst

Biography

Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist. Ernst was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing the webseries This Is Me. He created the award-winning trans history web series We’ve Been Around, and is a Producer, Director on Amazon’s Transparent; he also created the Transparent title sequence. Ernst has shown work in the Whitney Biennial, Sundance, Oberhausen, and The Hammer Museum; he has won awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival and the LA Transgender Film Festival; he has won two GLAAD Awards, was a Point Scholar, a Project Involve Fellow, and was awarded the Point Foundation Horizon Award and the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on LGBTQ representation in the media. He lives in Los Angeles and is the director of the forthcoming feature ADAM.

Known For

Transparent

Waiter

Tales from the Closet

Self

The Owls

House Party Guest / Interview

Unison

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2012	She Gone Rogue
2010	The Owls	House Party Guest / Interview
2009	N Train
	Unison

Year	TV Show	Role
2018	Tales from the Closet	Self
2014	Transparent	Waiter