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21st-century American screenwriters

  • Simon KinbergSimon David Kinberg arrived in Hammersmith, London, on the 2nd of August 1973. His parents were American citizens who moved him to Los Angeles when he was…
  • Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
  • Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
  • Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
  • Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
  • David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
  • Wes AndersonWesley Wales Anderson was born on the 1st of May 1969, in Houston, Texas. His father worked in advertising and public relations while his mother was a…
  • Matt HullumMatthew Jay Hullum entered the world on the 29th of September 1974. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Cheri Johnston and Everett Hullum.
  • George LucasGeorge Walton Lucas Jr. was born on the 14th of May 1944 in Modesto, California. He grew up as the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas and George Walton Lucas Sr.
  • Christopher NolanChristopher Edward Nolan was born on the 30th of July 1970 in Westminster, London. His father Brendan James Nolan worked as a creative director for an…
  • Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
  • Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine. His family moved to the United States in 1939 and settled in the…
  • Terrence MalickTerrence Malick was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois. His father Emil worked as a geologist and his mother Irene came from an Irish…
  • Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
  • Arthur MillerArthur Asher Miller was born on the 17th of October 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan. He grew up as the second child of Augusta and Isidore Miller.
  • Bradley CooperBradley Charles Cooper was born on the 5th of January 1975, in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. He grew up near Philadelphia in the communities of Jenkintown…
  • John LasseterJohn Alan Lasseter was born on the 12th of January 1957 in Hollywood, California. His mother Jewell Mae Risley taught art at Bell Gardens High School while…
  • Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Thomas Francis O'Brien worked as a physician and…
  • Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
  • J. J. AbramsOn a day in 1982, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams composed the music for a horror movie called Nightbeast. He was only sixteen years old when he wrote that score.
  • Dean DevlinDon Devlin, a Jewish actor turned writer-producer who discovered Steven Spielberg, and Pilar Seurat, a Filipino actress, raised Dean Devlin in the…
  • J. D. DillardJ. D. Dillard was born on the 26th of December 1987 into a family defined by service and flight. His father Bruce worked as a Naval flight officer who became…
  • John SingletonJohn Daniel Singleton was born on the 6th of January 1968, in Los Angeles. His mother Shelia Ward-Johnson worked as a pharmaceutical company sales executive.
  • Tony GilroyAnthony Joseph Gilroy entered the world on the 11th of September 1956, inside a Manhattan hospital. His father Frank D. Gilroy worked as an award-winning…
  • George R. R. MartinGeorge Raymond Martin was born on the 20th of September 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father worked as a longshoreman while his mother's family had once…
  • Charlie KaufmanCharles Stuart Kaufman was born on the 19th of November 1958 in New York City to a Jewish family. His parents were Helen and Myron Kaufman.
  • Dave FiloniDavid Filoni was born on the 7th of June 1974 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He grew up as a suburb of Pittsburgh with an Italian family background.
  • Lorne MichaelsLorne David Lipowitz entered the world on the 17th of November 1944 in Toronto, Ontario. His parents were Florence and Abraham Lipowitz, a man who worked as…
  • D. B. WeissDaniel Brett Weiss was born on the 23rd of April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. His family background traces back to Jewish roots with ancestral lines extending…
  • David BenioffDavid Friedman entered the world on the 25th of September 1970, in New York City. He grew up as the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with…
  • David X. CohenDavid Samuel Cohen was born on the 13th of July 1966 in New York City. Both of his parents were biologists, and he grew up planning to be a scientist himself.
  • The Duffer BrothersMatt Duffer and Ross Duffer were born on the 15th of February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina. They began making films in the third grade using a Hi8 video…
  • Beau WillimonPack Beauregard Willimon was born on the 26th of October 1977 in Alexandria, Virginia. His father served as a captain in the United States Navy and moved the…
  • Chris TerrioChris Terrio was born on the 31st of December 1976 in Staten Island. He grew up within a Catholic family that shaped his early worldview.
  • George NolfiGeorge Nolfi was born on the 10th of June 1968 in Boston. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in public policy.