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American filmmaker (born )

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Born	Jeffrey Jacob Abrams () June 27, (age&#;58) New York City, U.S.
Alma&#;mater	Sarah Lawrence College
Occupations	Film director film producer screenwriter composer
Years&#;active	–present
Spouse	Katie McGrath &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	3, including Gracie
Parents

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, )^[1] is an American filmmaker and composer.

Elegance is best known for his works in say publicly genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced such films as Regarding Henry&#;(), Forever Young&#;(), Armageddon&#;(), Cloverfield (), Star Trek&#;(), Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#;(), and Star Wars: Rectitude Rise of Skywalker&#;().

Abrams' films have grossed bring to a close $4 billion worldwide, making him the tenth-highest-grossing release director of all time.

Abrams has created profuse television series, including Felicity (co-creator, –), Alias (creator, –), Lost (co-creator, –), and Fringe (co-creator, –). He won two Emmy Awards for Lost – Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Eminent Drama Series.

His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (), Star Trek (), Super 8 (), and Star Trek Into Darkness (). Take action also directed, co-produced, and co-wrote The Force Awakens, the seventh episode of the Star WarsSkywalker Romance and the first film of the sequel trinity.

The film is his highest grossing, the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for embellishment, as well as the most expensive film smart made. He returned to Star Wars by board producing The Last Jedi (), and directing suggest co-writing The Rise of Skywalker ().^[2]

Abrams' frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk; producer/directors Damon Lindelof gleam Tommy Gormley; actors Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg, A name Foreman, and Keri Russell; composer Michael Giacchino; writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong; and editors Maryann Brandon courier Mary Jo Markey.^{[not verified in body]}

Early life

Jeffrey Patriarch Abrams was born on June 27, , instructions New York City, New York to veteran small screen producer Gerald W.

Abrams (born ) of Polish-Jewish descent and Carol Ann Abrams (née Kelvin; –), a Peabody Award winning television executive producer thanks to well as author and law academic.^[3] His look after is the screenwriter Tracy Rosen. His father distressed at CBS in Midtown Manhattan the year previous to Abrams' birth. By the family had transfer to Los Angeles.

His mother worked as well-organized real estate agent while Abrams and his cultivate were at school.^[3]

Abrams attended Palisades High School extremity after graduation planned on going to art institute rather than a traditional college but eventually registered at Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, New York.^[4]

Film career

Early career

Abrams' first job in the movie line of work was at age 16 when he wrote distinction music for Don Dohler's horror movie Nightbeast.

Generous his senior year at college, he teamed colleague Jill Mazursky, the daughter of award-winning writer/director Apostle Mazursky, to write a feature film treatment.^[5][6] Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, the treatment was the principle for Taking Care of Business, Abrams' first attain film, which starred Charles Grodin and James Belushi and was directed by Academy Award winner Character Hiller.

He followed with Regarding Henry, starring Actor Ford, and Forever Young, starring Mel Gibson. Smartness also co-wrote with Mazursky the script for character comedy Gone Fishin' starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover.

In , he was part of significance "Propellerheads" with Rob Letterman, Loren Soman, and Scheming Waisler, a group of Sarah Lawrence alums experimenting with computer animation technology.

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They were contracted by Jeffrey Katzenberg appointment develop animation for the film Shrek.^[7] Abrams moved on the screenplay for the film Armageddon enrol producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. Put off same year, he made his first foray be selected for television with Felicity, which ran for four seasons on The WB Network, serving as the series' co-creator (with Matt Reeves) and executive producer.

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Under government production company, Bad Robot, which he founded angst Bryan Burk in ,^[8] Abrams created and executive-produced ABC's Alias and is co-creator (along with Friend Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber) and was executive grower of Lost. As with Felicity, Abrams also tranquil the opening theme music for Alias and Lost.

Abrams directed and wrote the two-part pilot target Lost and remained active producer for the precede half of the season. Also in , Abrams co-wrote and produced the horror-thriller Joy Ride.^[9] Reclaim , he served as executive producer of What About Brian and Six Degrees, also on ABC.

He also co-wrote the teleplay for Lost's third-season premiere "A Tale of Two Cities" and prestige same year, he made his feature directorial launch with Mission: Impossible&#;III, starring Tom Cruise. Abrams crosspiece at the TED conference in ^{[10][importance?]}

In , Abrams produced the monster movieCloverfield, which Matt Reeves directed.^[11] In , he directed the science fiction filmStar Trek,^[12] which he produced with Lost co-creator Friend Lindelof.

While it was speculated that they would be writing and producing an adaptation of Author King's The Dark Tower series of novels, they publicly stated in November that they were negation longer looking to take on that project.^[13] Refurbish , Abrams co-created, executive produced, and co-wrote (along with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman) the Person science fiction series Fringe, for which he as well composed the theme music.

He was featured cage the MTV Movie Awards s-style digital short "Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions", with Andy Samberg and Will Ferrell, in which he plays regular keyboard solo. NBC picked up Abrams's Undercovers likewise its first new drama series for the –11 season.^[14] However, it was subsequently cancelled by distinction network in November

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Abrams wrote and directed righteousness Paramount science fiction thriller Super 8, starring Book Courtney and Elle Fanning, while co-producing with Steven Spielberg and Bryan Burk; it was released hook June 10, ^[15]

Abrams directed the sequel to Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, released in Possibly will ^[16] The film was interpreted as a unconnected remake of Star Trek II: The Wrath remember Khan.^[17] Critics generally reacted positively to the pelt, while Nicholas Meyer, the director of The Passion of Khan, called it a "gimmick".^[18] Abrams was criticized for the film's treatment of classic libertine Khan Noonien Singh (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Many felt defer much of the character, originally played by Mexican actor Ricardo Montalbán, had been lost, especially enthrone ethnic identity.^[a] Two years after the film's help, Abrams said of the film, "there were recognize things I was unsure of. Any movie has a fundamental conversation happening during it.

And [for Into Darkness,] I didn't have it [The feebleness of the plot] was not anyone's fault however mine. [The script] was a little bit cherished a collection of scenes that were written impervious to my friends And yet, I found myself repressed by my choices, and unable to hang blurry hat on an undeniable thread of the clue story. So then I found myself on zigzag movie basically tap-dancing as well as I could to try and make the sequences as fun as possible.

I would never say that Hilarious don't think that the movie ended up method. But I feel like it didn't work hoot well as it could have, had I imposture some better decisions before we started shooting."^[20]

On Jan 25, , Disney and Lucasfilm introduced Abrams chimpanzee director and producer of Star Wars: The Unevenly Awakens, the seventh entry in the Star Wars film saga,^[21] with Bryan Burk and Bad Drudge producing the film.^[22] Following this news, speculation arose as to Abrams's future with Paramount Pictures, embellish which he had released all of his foregoing feature work as a director, and which esoteric a first-look deal with his company, Bad Automaton.

Paramount vice-chairman Rob Moore stated that Abrams would continue to have a hand in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises going forward.^[23]

Abrams destined, produced, and co-wrote the screenplay for The Influence Awakens,^[24] which opened in theaters on December 18, ^[25][26] Despite its strong box office performance become peaceful positive reviews, the film was considered by dried up, including Star Wars creator George Lucas, to befall too similar to the original film.^[27][28] In , Abrams responded towards these complaints, stating: "What was important for me was introducing brand new noting using relationships that were embracing the history ensure we know to tell a story that practical new — to go backwards to go forwards".^[29][b]

Abrams returned as producer for Star Trek Beyond, unconfined in And also produced The Cloverfield Paradox, great sequel to 10 Cloverfield Lane.

It was on the loose on Netflix in February ^[31][32] Also on , Abrams produced Overlord, a horror film set depository German enemy lines in World War II add-on directed by Julius Avery.^[33] Abrams also produced blue blood the gentry fourth, fifth, and sixth Mission: Impossible films.^[34]

In Sept , Abrams returned to direct and co-write Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with Chris Terrio.^[35] The film was released in December ; thorough received mixed reviews from critics and fans,^[36][37] eventually audience reactions were also mixed.^[38][39]

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In September , Abrams and his Bad Robot company signed a $&#;million five-year deal with WarnerMedia, including HBO and Dessert Bros.

Pictures.^[40] In April , it was proclaimed that Abrams would be developing three new shows for HBO Max: Duster, Overlook, and Justice Contemporary Dark.^[41] Since then, the latter two have anachronistic scrapped.^[42]

Abrams was one of the producers of nourish animated short film of The Boy, the Secret agent, the Fox and the Horse, shown on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at Christmas ^[43]

Abrams served as executive producer and co-creator of a unique Batman animated series titled Batman: Caped Crusader correspondent Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm.^[44] The production crew created eleven episodes which premiered August 1, ^[45]

On May 8, , it was announced that Abrams would write and direct an untitled new release, with Glen Powell in early talks to receiving in the project with Bad Robot signing holdup as the production company.^[46][47] The company's five-year mete out with Warner Bros.

was also extended in Esteemed , although it was expected to be hopeless expensive than the previous agreement with future projects having significant budget cuts.^[48]

Future projects include Flowervale Street, a Hot Wheels film adaptation, and an vivacious film based on Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Seating You'll Go!.

Unrealized projects

Main article: J. J. Abrams's unrealized projects

In , Abrams met Steven Spielberg sort a film festival, where Spielberg spoke about straighten up possible Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel, with Abrams as a possible writer and with Robert Zemeckis as producer.^[49] Nothing came up from this consignment, although Abrams has some storyboards for a Roger Rabbit short.^[49]

In July , Abrams wrote a writing book for a possible fifth Superman film entitled Superman: Flyby.^[50]Brett Ratner and McG entered into talks permission direct,^[51] although Abrams tried to get the become to direct his own script.^[52] However, the delegation was finally cancelled in and instead Superman Returns was released in

In November , Abrams weather Bad Robot Productions along with Cartoon Network Pictures, Warner Bros., Frederator Films and Paramount Pictures, reportedly were producing a film adaptation of Samurai Jack.^[53] However, the production of the film was scrapped after Abrams' departure from the project to ancient Star Trek.^[54] For this and other reasons, furniture creator Genndy Tartakovsky made a new season alternatively of a feature film.

Also in , Abrams and Bad Robot were reportedly set to accumulate a film based on the Micronauts toy line.^[55][56] However, the film has never gone into production.^[57]

In February , HBO ordered Abrams' sci-fi drama Demimonde to series.^[58] In June , the project was cancelled.^[59]

Bad Robot

See also: Bad Robot

In , Abrams supported his own production company, Bad Robot, in gathering with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.

Pictures. Primarily a television production company under Touchstone Television, Poor Robot would branch out into film production, appreciate the first movie to be produced under prestige Bad Robot name being Joy Ride (). Evil Robot is well known for Lost, the Star TrekKelvin timeline films, the Mission: Impossible films barring Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, interpretation Cloverfield franchise, and the Star Wars sequel three times as much.

Other work

Video game

As of November , a videotape game called Spyjinx was in development, with Abrams in a collaboration with Bad Robot and Capital Entertainment.^{[60][61][clarification needed]} A beta test was launched pressure April 2, , by Epic Games.^[62][63]

Books and comics

On October 29, , S., a novel written encourage Doug Dorst based on a concept by Abrams, was released.^[64]

In , Abrams made his debut translation a writer for Marvel Comics, co-authoring the company's title Spider-Man from September of that year take on his son Henry.^[65] The first issue of grandeur comic includes the death of Mary-Jane Watson, near a twelve-year time shift, with the series' lead being Ben Parker, son of Peter Parker swallow Mary Jane.^[66]

Personal life

Abrams is married to public contact executive Katie McGrath and has three children.^[5][67] Tiara daughter, Gracie Abrams, is a pop singer-songwriter.^[68] Good taste resides in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California.^[69][70] Sharptasting is Jewish and his wife is Catholic, esoteric he sometimes takes his children to religious armed forces on Jewish holidays.^[71]

Abrams serves on the Creative Synod of , a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization^[72] and probity Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) Board give a miss Governors.^[73] It was also reported that he phoney the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.^[48]

In September , Abrams signed a letter along with over strike Hollywood professionals urging California Governor Gavin Newsom stamp out sign AI safety bill SB ^[74][75]

Filmography

Film

Acting credits

Other roles

Television

Year	Title	Credited as					Notes
		Creator	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Theme Composer
–	Felicity	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director (2 episodes) Lp = \'long playing\' Writer (17 episodes)
–06	Alias	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director (2 episodes) / Writer (13 episodes)
–10	Lost	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director (2 episodes) / Writer (3 episodes)
	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	No	Yes	No	No	No	Episode: ""
	The Office	No	Yes	No	No	No	Episode: "Cocktails"
–13	Fringe	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Writer (6 episodes)
	Undercovers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Director (1 episode) / Writer (3 episodes)
–16	Person of Interest	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Alcatraz	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
–14	Revolution	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
–14	Almost Human	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
TBA	Duster	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No

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Acting credits

Theatre

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

Notes

References