Matthew Weiner (born 1965) is an American writer, director and producer of television drama. He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and show runner of the AMC television series Mad Men. He is also noted for his work on the HBO series The Sopranos, on which he served as a writer and producer during the show's fifth and sixth seasons. Weiner has received six Emmy Awards for his work on Mad Men and The Sopranos.
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Matthew Weiner (born 1965) is an American writer, director and producer of television drama. He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and show runner of the AMC television series Mad Men. He is also noted for his work on the HBO series The Sopranos, on which he served as a writer and producer during the show's fifth and sixth seasons. Weiner has received six Emmy Awards for his work on Mad Men and The Sopranos.
Weiner was born in 1965 in Baltimore to a Jewish-American family, attended The Park School of Baltimore and grew up in Los Angeles. He enrolled in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, studying literature, philosophy, and history and earned an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.
Weiner began his screenwriting career as an uncredited joke-writer for the short-lived Fox sitcom Party Girl. He later went on to work as a writer and producer on The Naked Truth and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Weiner wrote the...
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