Writers to watch...
by tremulom | created - 01 May 2019 | updated - 02 Dec 2019 | Public
1. Andrew Ross Sorkin
Writer | Billions
Andrew Ross Sorkin was born on February 19, 1977. He is a writer and producer, known for Billions (2016), Untitled Game Stop Project and I Am Not Satoshi. He has been married to Pilar Queen Sorkin since June 9, 2007. They have two children.
2. Brian Koppelman
Writer | Runaway Jury
Brian Koppelman was born in 1966 in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Runaway Jury (2003), Runner Runner (2013) and Michael Clayton (2007).
3. Heidi Schreck
Producer | Billions
Heidi Schreck is known for Billions (2016), Nurse Jackie (2009) and Bad Behavior.
4. Shane Black
Actor | Predator
Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) ...
5. John Francis Daley
Actor | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
John Francis Daley began acting in the national and international tour of The Who's Tommy, playing young Tommy - and coming to national prominence in the critically acclaimed, cult classic series, Freaks and Geeks (1999). Formerly a regular on the Fox hit, Bones (2005), John can also be seen in the...
6. Chazz Palminteri
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Bronx-born and raised Chazz Palminteri was a natural choice to continue the Italianate torch in film. In the tradition set forth in the 1970s by such icons as director Martin Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, John Cazale and Joe Pesci, Palminteri has brought grit, muscle and an ...
7. Yuji Okumoto
Actor | The Karate Kid Part II
Yuji Okumoto was born on April 20, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Karate Kid Part II (1986), Inception (2010) and Johnny Tsunami (1999). He has been married to Angela Okumoto since 2001. They have three children.
8. Victoria Barabas
Actress | Seberg
Victoria Barabas was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Seberg (2019), NCIS (2003) and Hidden in Plain Sight (2019).
9. Scott Martin
Producer | The Best Man
Scott Martin was born in Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Best Man (2023), Big Kill (2019) and Don't Kill It (2016). He has been married to Stephanie Beran since June 14, 2014.
10. Bryan Cranston
Actor | Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
11. Edward Zwick
Producer | The Last Samurai
Zwick moves deftly between the roles of writer, director and producer. He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his direction of the 1989 critically acclaimed Civil War drama, Glory. He received his second Golden Globe nomination as a director for Legends of the Fall. Zwick received an Academy Award...
12. Duane Whitaker
Actor | Pulp Fiction
Duane Whitaker, a native of Lubbock Texas, has spent the last 30 years as one of Hollywood's most entertaining hyphenates. As an actor, Whitaker is most recognized as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner, in Pulp Fiction. Of course, you don't walk onto the set of a ground breaking film like Pulp ...
13. John Hamburg
Producer | Little Fockers
John Hamburg was born on May 26, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Little Fockers (2010), Why Him? (2016) and I Love You, Man (2009). He has been married to Christina Kirk since September 24, 2005.
14. John Logan
Writer | Skyfall
John Logan was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." He won the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle awards for his play RED, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and the Golden Theatre on ...
15. Hart Hanson
Producer | Traders
Hart Hanson is creator and show-runner of the Fox television series Bones and The Finder. Prior to creating Bones and The Finder, Hart was Executive Producer of the Emmy nominated CBS tv series Judging Amy followed by Joan of Arcadia which won the HUMANITAS, Peoples's Choice Award, and the AFI ...
16. Kathy Reichs
Writer | Bones
Kathy Reichs was born on July 7, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Bones (2005), Crime Connections (2012) and Equinox (1986). She has been married to Paul Aivars Reichs since 1968. They have three children.
17. Michael Peterson
Producer | Bones
Michael Peterson is known for Bones (2005), The Green Mile (1999) and The Majestic (2001).
18. Dean Lopata
Producer | Bones
Dean Lopata is known for Bones (2005), Braveheart (1995) and Whiskey Cavalier (2019).
19. Vince Gilligan
Producer | The X Files
George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and director of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was a writer and producer for The ...
20. Jonathan Goldstein
Writer | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Jonathan Goldstein was born on September 2, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Horrible Bosses (2011) and Game Night (2018). He has been married to Adena Halpern since August 26, 2007. They have one child.
21. Tony Danza
Actor | Don Jon
Tony Danza is an American actor, perhaps best known for starring on some of television's most beloved and long-running series, including "Taxi" (1978-1983) and "Who's the Boss?" (1984-1992).
Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (Cammisa), a bookkeeper, and Matty Iadanza, a garbageman. His ...
22. James L. Brooks
Writer | Broadcast News
James L. Brooks was born on May 9, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Broadcast News (1987), As Good as It Gets (1997) and Terms of Endearment (1983). He was previously married to Holly Holmberg Brooks and Marianne Catherine Morrissey.
23. Ernie Altbacker
Writer | Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
Ernie Altbacker is known for Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020), Spooksville (2013) and Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017).
24. Christine Conradt
Writer | Pearl in Paradise
Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Christine Conradt is an L.A.-based screenwriter, producer, director, and script consultant. After earning a BFA in screenwriting from the University of Southern California's Cinematic Arts program, she worked briefly in development before launching her ...
25. Sue M Swank
Writer | The Final Exam
Sue was born an Army Brat in Washington DC and raised in Richmond Virginia. Her first real career was that of a Victim's Advocate in both New York and in the Florida Keys. For over a decade, Sue specialized in profiling and trauma/crisis intervention primarily on behalf of victims of sex crimes and...
26. Chris Morgan
Producer | Fast & Furious 7
Chris Morgan is known for Furious 7 (2015), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) and Furious 6 (2013).
27. Dito Montiel
Director | A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel was born on July 26, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), Boulevard (2014) and Riff Raff.
28. Damon Lindelof
Producer | Lost
Damon Lindelof was born on April 24, 1973 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Lost (2004), The Leftovers (2014) and Watchmen (2019). He has been married to Heidi Fugeman since May 28, 2005. They have one child.
29. Josie Davis
Actress | Festival of Trees
Actress Josie Davis stars in director Drew Water's hilarious Christmas comedy, Festival of Trees, out this holiday season.Also set to release this year is her role as evil government astrophysicist, Dr Barboux, opposite James Remar, in the comedy Glowzies in which she and Remar were nominated at ...
30. Ken Marino
Actor | Wanderlust
Ken Marino was born on December 19, 1968 in Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Wanderlust (2012), The State (1993) and The Ten (2007). He has been married to Erica Oyama since October 8, 2005. They have two children.
31. Eric Bogosian
Actor | Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian was born in Boston and grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts. After graduating from Woburn Memorial High School in 1971, he attended the University of Chicago and graduated from Oberlin College in 1976, whereupon he moved to New York City. In New York he was hired by the Kitchen as an ...
32. John Leguizamo
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, ...
33. Julia Stiles
Actress | 10 Things I Hate About You
Lovely, Julia (O'Hara) Stiles, of Irish, English and German heritage, was born on March 28, 1981 in New York City, the outgoing daughter and eldest of three children of a Greenwich Village artist mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, and an elementary school teacher father, John O'Hara.
Encouraged to take ...
34. Lorene Scafaria
Producer | Hustlers
Lorene Scafaria was born on May 1, 1978 in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Hustlers (2019), Coherence (2013) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).
35. Chris Columbus
Producer | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "...
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