Brad Falchuk
Brad Falchuk was born in Newton, Massachusetts, United States on March 1st, 1971 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 53, Brad Falchuk 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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Brad Falchuk (born March 1, 1971) is an American television writer, director, and producer.
He is best known for co-creating with Ryan Murphy the comedy-drama television series Glee, the horror-drama anthology film American Horror Story, and the horror film Scream Queens.
He was also a writer and executive producer for the television show Nip/Tuck.
Early life
Falchuk was born in Massachusetts to Jewish parents. Nancy Falchuk, the national president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 2007 to 2011, was his mother. He attempted to stand out from his peers by wearing a tie to school every day. He has played baseball, basketball, and lacrosse as well. "I was always trying to look smart because I didn't feel smart," he said; he has undiagnosed dyslexia. In 1993, he graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
AFI Conservatory's master's degree in screenwriting.
Personal life
Falchuk co-founded Young Storytellers, an arts education nonprofit founded in 1997, with Mikkel Bondesen and Andrew Barrett in reaction to cuts in support for creative arts programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Falchuk currently serves on the Young Storytellers advisory board of directors.
Evan Falchuk, Falchuk's brother, founded the United Independent Party and was a contender for governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. Falchuk was identified by his father and brother's medical consulting company in 2008 as having a serious spinal cord injury. He made a complete recovery after emergency spinal surgery and inspired portions of the Glee episode "Wheels."
Suzanne Bukinik, a television presenter who first met Falchuk in 1994, was his first wife. The couple married in 2002 and had two children. In 2013, the couple filed for divorce.
Falchuk began dating actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2014, who he had met on the set of Glee in 2010. After months of rumors, the two couples announced their relationship at a birthday party in April 2015. Paltrow and Falchuk announced their engagement on January 8, 2018. Their wedding was held in The Hamptons on Long Island on September 29, 2018.
Falchuk and Paltrow perform Transcendental Meditation together.
Career
Falchuk's career in television began as a writer for Mutant X (2001), Earth: Final Conflict (2001–02) and Veritas: The Quest (2003), before he was hired to work on the first season of Nip/Tuck in 2003. While working on Nip/Tuck, he formed a close bond and partnership with the show's creator, Ryan Murphy. Falchuk and Murphy went on to write a television pilot titled Pretty/Handsome, about a transgender gynecologist, which the FX network bought in 2008. However, the pilot was not picked up as a series.
As Nip/Tuck neared its sixth and final season, Falchuk and Murphy began to look for their next project, and decided to focus on a lighter subject. They teamed up with Ian Brennan, who had written a screenplay about high school show choirs, to pitch a one-hour comedy about a glee club to the Fox Broadcasting Company. Their pitch was successful and turned into the television show Glee, which premiered in 2009. Falchuk, Murphy and Brennan received two Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Best Comedy Series and Best New Series.
After the early success of Glee, Falchuk signed a two-year, seven-figure deal with 20th Century Fox Television which involved further work on Glee as well as the development of other projects for the studio. Glee concluded following its sixth season, which aired from January 9 to March 20, 2015.
In 2011, Falchuk co-created the FX horror-drama anthology series American Horror Story with previous collaborator Ryan Murphy. The first season, starring Jessica Lange, Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott, premiered October 5, 2011, and received critical acclaim; the series was nominated for 17 Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, and 15 Primetime Emmys in 2013, with Falchuk nominated for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie both years. In 2014, the show was once again nominated for 17 Primetime Emmy Awards, with Falchuk nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.
Falchuk is an executive producer on American Crime Story with Ryan Murphy, which began airing on February 2, 2016. Falchuk, Murphy and Brennan also created Fox's horror comedy series Scream Queens, which ran from September 2015 to December 2016, and starred Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer and Jamie Lee Curtis. The first season was set on a college campus.
In March 2019, Falchuk signed a four-year overall deal with Netflix through his Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision production company to "develop, write, produce, and direct new series".