Alan Ball
Alan Ball was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on May 13th, 1957 and is the TV Producer. At the age of 66, Alan Ball biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, producer, and actor for television, film, and theater. He wrote the screenplay for American Beauty for which he received an Academy Award.
He also created the series Six Feet Under and True Blood, for which he received an Emmy Award and the Writer's, Directors, and Producers Guilds.
Early life
Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, respectively an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. When Ball was 13 years old, his older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car crash; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta before going to college at the University of Georgia and Florida State University. Ball received a bachelor's degree in theater arts from Florida State in 1980.
He began working as a playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida, after college.
Personal life
In numerous interviews, Ball has discussed his Buddhist faith, noting how it has influenced his filmmaking. Ball spoke to Amazon.com about the plastic bag controversy in American Beauty, saying, "I had a contact with a plastic bag!" And I didn't have a video camera like Ricky does... The miraculous within the mundane exists, according to a Buddhist belief, and I think we live in a society that encourages us not to search for such things." In Six Feet Under and True Blood, Ball has also discussed how his Buddhism has influenced themes, which he has greatly contributed to.
Ball is gay and has been described as "a leading voice for [the] LGBT group." He was named on Out magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential gay men and women in 2008.
Film and television career
Ball, a writer and story editor, began to work on the situation comedies Grace Under Fire and Cybill.
Ball has produced three films, American Beauty (1999), Towelhead (2007), and Uncle Frank (2020), the latter of which he also produced and directed. He is also the creator, writer, and executive producer of HBO's drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood. For the first five seasons, Ball was the showrunner for True Blood.
Ball began working on a television version of Charlie Huston's Mystic Arts of Age All Signs of Death, a crime noir book. HBO has halted production on the project in December 2010, following several months of pre-production.
Ball was also one of the executive producers of Cinemax's Banshee film.
Ball's family romance Here and Now, which was announced by HBO in July 2016, was confirmed. After a one-episode season, Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter were canceled in April 2018.