Nationality American Children 2 Books Other People's Weddings Spouse Kyle Hawley Education Sarah Lawrence College | Notable works Fargo Role Film producer Name Noah Hawley | |
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Occupation Author, screenwriter, producer, composer Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special Movies and TV shows Fargo, The Unusuals, The Alibi Similar People Allison Tolman, Warren Littlefield, Jesse Plemons, Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks Profiles | ||
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Noah Hawley (born c. 1967) is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, best known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo (2014–present) and Legion (2017–present). Hawley earlier worked on the television series Bones (2005–2008), The Unusuals (2009) and My Generation (2010).
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- Early life
- Books
- Television
- Film
- Personal life
- Published works
- References
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Early life
Hawley was born and raised in New York City, New York. His mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright. His father, Tom Hawley, was a businessman. He has a twin brother, Alexi, who is a writer for the television show The Following and the creator of State of Affairs.
Hawley graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in political science in 1989. He worked for Legal Aid Society in New York City, dealing with cases involving child abuse and neglect. He later moved to San Francisco and did computer programming work at law firms and worked as a paralegal.
Books
He has published five novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998), Other People's Weddings (2004), The Punch (2008), The Good Father (2012), and Before the Fall (2016).
Television
Hawley was a writer and producer on the first three seasons of the television series Bones (2005–2008). He was also creator and executive producer of The Unusuals (2009) and My Generation (2010).
Hawley is the creator, primary writer and executive producer of the FX anthology television series Fargo (2014), based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film of the same name. On August 25, 2014, Fargo won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries, along with 17 additional nominations at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. In total, the series has been nominated for 113 awards since its premiere, winning 32 of them. Season 3 of Fargo premiered on April 19, 2017.
In December 2015, Hawley extended his production deal with FX. He wrote and served as executive producer for Legion, an FX television series based on the Marvel comic book character. Hawley will also write and executive produce a limited series adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle for FX. He will executive produce, but not write for, two additional adaptations for FX: Hellhound On His Trail, based on the book of the same name, and The Hot Rock, also based on a book.
Film
Hawley wrote the original screenplay for the film The Alibi (2006).
In September 2014, it was announced that Hawley had signed a deal with Universal Pictures to script an untitled project for their upcoming Dark Universe. Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to Hawley's latest novel, Before the Fall, with him writing the screenplay.
Hawley will make his feature film directorial debut with Man Alive, from a sci-fi spec script by first-time screenwriter Joe Greenberg. He will also produce Pale Blue Dot, a sci-fi film with Reese Witherspoon as an astronaut for Fox Searchlight. On July 20, 2017, Hawley announced at Comic Con that he is writing and directing a Doctor Doom movie with 20th Century Fox.
Personal life
Hawley resides in Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Kyle Hawley, and their two children.