AnnaRose King, the writer-director known for American Viral and Good enough and Roger King’s daughter from King World Production, died.
Her family announced that she died on January 3 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan, after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 35 years old.
The Manhattan-born and raised Beverly Farms, MA filmmaker directed a total of seven films, one of which was inspired by the passing of his broadcast executive father, Roger King, who died of a stroke on December 10, 2007. He was 63 years. .
AnnaRose King’s Good enough focuses on a New York flight attendant who seeks to find a long-lost relative after his father’s death. King directed, wrote and starred in the 2016 title.
King’s American Viral, which she created and wrote, stars Michael Showalter and follows a family that tries to go viral after a successful video makes them famous on the internet.
Your additional driving credits include Spanish Rice, Kat & Eis, Crystal Sessions, The Actress and Got up.
The filmmaker was chosen as a fellow at the Sundance Institute FilmTwo 2020 for her script about a woman from New York who seeks to cure her cancer by participating in an experimental treatment in Houston.
After his diagnosis, King established a cancer research fund at MD Anderson. Donations can be made to the fund in your honor here: https://www.annaroseking.com/advocacy
King, who also founded Young King Productions, leaves her husband, Michael Charles Telis, and their four-year-old daughter. Survivors also include their survivors from their mother, sister and mother and father-in-law.