Dan Fogelman (born February 19, 1976) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, whose screenplays include ''

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'', '' Bolt'', ''

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'', and ''

Crazy, Stupid, Love ''Crazy, Stupid, Love.'' is a 2011 American romantic comedy film directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, written by Dan Fogelman and starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, John Carroll Lynch, Marisa Tomei and Kev ...

''. He also created the 2012 television

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'' The Neighbors'', the 2015

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series ''

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'', the 2016

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series ''

This Is Us ''This Is Us'' is an American drama television series created by Dan Fogelman that aired on NBC from September 20, 2016, to May 24, 2022. The series follows the lives and families of two parents and their three children in several different ti ...

'', the 2016 baseball drama series '' Pitch'', and the 2025 drama series ''

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''.

Biography

Fogelman grew up in what he has called an "endearingly dysfunctional"

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family in

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. He attended

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in nearby Hillsdale. He attended the

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and graduated in 1997. He and his mother, Joyce, took a road trip from

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that became the basis for his 2012 film comedy '' The Guilt Trip'', starring

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and

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as a mother and son on a cross-country road trip. His father, named Marty, became the namesake of the father in the 2012 television

'' The Neighbors'' created by Fogelman, who has a sister who inspired the family daughter in this series. He is married to Caitlin Thompson, who stars as Madison on his family drama ''

.'' They have a son, born in 2020.

Filmography

Films

Also uncredited wrote an earlier draft for ''

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'' (2023).

Television films

Television series

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fogelman, Dan 1979 births Living people 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American male writers American male screenwriters American male television writers American television writers Animation screenwriters Jewish American screenwriters Jewish American television writers Pascack Valley High School alumni People from River Vale, New Jersey Pixar people Screenwriters from New Jersey Television producers from New Jersey This Is Us Walt Disney Animation Studios people Writers from Bergen County, New Jersey