Joshua Ian Schwartz was born on August 6,1976 and is an American screenwriter and television producer.
27 Facts About Josh Schwartz
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Josh Schwartz is known for developing The CW's series Gossip Girl based on the book of the same name and for co-creating NBC's action-comedy-spy series, Chuck.
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Josh Schwartz was born to a Jewish family in 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Steve and Honey Josh Schwartz.
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Josh Schwartz's parents were both toy inventors at Hasbro, working on the development of toys such as Transformers and My Little Pony, until they went on to start their own company.
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Josh Schwartz grew up on the east side of Providence, Rhode Island with a younger brother, Danny, and a younger sister, Katie.
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Josh Schwartz always had ambitions of being a writer since early childhood.
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When Josh Schwartz was seven years old, he won an essay-writing contest at Summer camp for a review of the recently released movie Gremlins; the opening line was "Spielberg has done it again" and stood out amongst the other submissions.
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Josh Schwartz attended Providence's private Wheeler School, a coeducational independent day school, for 11 years, graduating with the class of 1994.
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In 1995, Josh Schwartz attended film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California.
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Josh Schwartz became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, as well as president of the chapter, and got to see what it's like "behind the gated communities and big mansions" of Southern California which would later provide fodder for his pilot The OC.
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Josh Schwartz entered his screenplay into a contest for the prestigious Nicholson Award in Screenwriting, the highest honor awarded to undergraduates, and won.
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Josh Schwartz then dropped out of USC to work full-time and wrote another pilot called Wall to Wall Records, a drama about working in a music store for Warner Bros.
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Josh Schwartz's writing influences include Cameron Crowe and Woody Allen.
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Josh Schwartz has said that he partially based The OC.
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Josh Schwartz was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the pilot as well as a People's Choice Award.
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Josh Schwartz has stayed in touch with his alma maters: The Wheeler School and USC.
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Josh Schwartz sold a pilot to Fox called Alphabet City, a drama about a New York tabloid but it was never produced.
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Josh Schwartz worked on a drama for Fox called Athens described as an "OC" companion but it was never produced.
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In 2005, Paramount signed Josh Schwartz to adapt and direct John Green's young adult novel Looking for Alaska with producer Mark Waters.
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In 2007, Josh Schwartz signed a three-year, seven-figure overall deal with Warner Bros.
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In May 2008, Josh Schwartz joined Zak Penn's X-Men: First Class project.
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Josh Schwartz announced that he will write the script for X-Men: First Class, a prequel to the X-Men movies that focuses on the adventures of teen Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Professor X, Beast, Iceman, and Angel.
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In Spring 2009, Josh Schwartz launched "Rockville CA", a web-series on TheWB.
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Josh Schwartz developed several adaptations of popular properties, such as Runaways for Marvel, a reboot of Dynasty and Nancy Drew for CW.
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On September 20,2008, Josh Schwartz married Jill Stonerock in Santa Barbara, California.
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The couple were introduced by actress Rachel Bilson, who portrayed Summer Roberts on Josh Schwartz's show The OC.
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On December 28,2021, Josh Schwartz filed for divorce due to "irreconcilable differences" and a citing a "post-nuptial agreement" the couple signed in 2016.