Don Roos | |
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| Born | April 14, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, director, producer |
| Years active | 1979–present |
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| Children | 2 |
Donald Paul Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director. [1]
Don Roos | |
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| Born | April 14, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, director, producer |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Donald Paul Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director. [1]
Roos was born in upstate New York into a conservative Roman Catholic family of mostly Irish descent. He attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a television screenwriting career. [2]
Roos supported himself by working as a word processor, and to this day jokes that he has that as a fall-back plan. Roos began his writing career when he had a friend of his impersonate an agent and represent him; a phone call led to a job with playwright Mart Crowley ( The Boys in the Band ), who at the time was an executive producer of Hart to Hart . Roos wrote for The Colbys , Nightingales , and other TV shows, before his spec scripts led to feature film writing assignments. His first major film was 1992's Academy Award-nominated Love Field , an interracial drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert. [3]
Roos's work as the writer of the film Single White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexicon[ citation needed ] in reference to the film's psychopathic lead character who begins to take on her roommate's identity.
Roos is well known for his work writing strong and engaging female characters,[ citation needed ] a skill that has also been useful in his film direction, leading to Independent Spirit Award nominations for actors Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Roos himself has won a Best First Feature Independent Spirit Award, for The Opposite of Sex . [4] Roos has polished or written the screenplay to many high-profile studio films, sometimes as uncredited script doctor.
With his husband - actor, writer, and film producer Dan Bucatinsky - he has two children, Eliza and Jonah.
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