AnnaRose King, the writer-director known for American viral and Good enough and Roger King’s daughter, King World Production, passed away.
Her family announced that she had died on January 3 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 35.
Born in Manhattan, Beverly Farms, the filmmaker, has directed a total of seven films, one of which was inspired by the death of her broadcast executive father, Roger King, who died on December 10, 2007, of a stroke. He was 63.
AnnaRose King’s Good enough concentrates on a flight attendant in New York who wants to find a long-lost family member after her 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 as they try to go viral after a successful video made them known on the internet.
Her additional directing credits include Spanish Rice, Kat & Eis, Crystal Sessions, The Actress and Stood up.
The filmmaker has been selected as a Sundance Institute FilmTwo Fellow for 2020 for her screenplay about a New York woman who wants to cure her cancer by participating in an experimental treatment in Houston.
After her diagnosis, King established a cancer research fund with MD Anderson. Donations in her honor to the fund can be made here: https://www.annaroseking.com/advocacy
King, who also founded Young King Productions, is survived by her husband, Michael Charles Telis, and their four-year-old daughter. Survivors also include her mother, her sister and her mother and father-in-law.