Aaron Sorkin
Despite initially aspiring to be an actor, Sorkin found his niche as a writer/producer. After penning a number of off-Broadway plays, he finally made it to the Great White Way with the 1989 legal mili...
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06/08/1961
New York, NY |
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| A Few Good Men was based on a story his sister Deborah, a Navy JAG lawyer, told him. |
| Turned in a 385-page first-draft screenplay for 1995's The American President. Unused material from that script was later adapted for The West Wing. |
| Received Humanitas Prize for the 1999 West Wing episode titled "In Excelsis Deo." |
| Did uncredited script work on Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Holocaust drama Schindler's List. |
