Education Master of Fine Arts Alma mater AFI Conservatory Role Writer | Name Sam Esmail Years active 2008–present | |
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Born September 17, 1977 (age 46) ( 1977-09-17 ) Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation Director, producer, writer Awards Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Series Long Form Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series Movies and TV shows Mr Robot, Comet, Mockingbird Similar People Rami Malek, Emmy Rossum, Justin Siegel, Justin Long, Geoffrey Gould Profiles | ||
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Sam Esmail (born September 17, 1977) is an American screenwriter, film and television director, and television producer. He is best known as the creator of the television series Mr. Robot (2015–present).
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Early life
Esmail was born to an Egyptian family in Hoboken, New Jersey. His family is Muslim. His family later moved to South Carolina, where, he said, "I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things. Back in my day, those are things that you would get beaten up for," adding, "When you're a funny-looking Egyptian growing up in Jersey and South Carolina, it kind of gets rough." The family eventually moved back to Sewell, New Jersey, in Gloucester County's Washington Township.
He had gotten his first computer when he was 9 and began writing his own code a few years later. While attending New York University, he worked in its computer lab before being put on academic probation for an incident there. After graduating from that college's Tisch School of the Arts, he went on to a Master of Fine Arts degree from the AFI Conservatory.
Career
In 2008, Esmail's first feature film screenplay, Sequels, Remakes & Adaptations, landed on the Black List, a yearly survey of over 600 production companies and film executives of the "most liked" motion picture screenplays not yet produced. In 2014, his feature length directorial debut, Comet was released by IFC.
He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the technological thriller television series Mr. Robot, which premiered on USA Network on June 24, 2015. Esmail originally envisioned the project as a feature film.
In a 2015 interview, Esmail explained the influence of his heritage on his work, saying, "I tend to write about alienated figures who can't connect with others and who are kind of distant from American culture. It's not something I am consciously doing but it's something that happens to be infused inside me because of my experience growing up in America."
Personal life
In August 2015, Esmail became engaged to actress Emmy Rossum after dating for two years. He had directed her in his directorial debut, Comet. They were married on May 28, 2017, at a Reform synagogue in New York City.