Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning American film writer and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as the Academy Award-nominated Syriana which he directed and wrote.
Born in either in Louisville, Kentucky or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and h...
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Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning American film writer and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as the Academy Award-nominated Syriana which he directed and wrote.
Born in either in Louisville, Kentucky or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag, Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for Variety and the Philadelphia Daily News, whose career inspired Gaghan's own professional pursuits. As he wrote in a 2001 article in Newsweek, "I also wanted to be a writer, like my grandfather, who carried a card in his wallet that read, "If you find me, call my son [my father] at this number..."
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