Matthew Hoffman Weiner is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Mad Men, and as a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos.
22 Facts About Matthew Weiner
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Matthew Weiner has won nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two for The Sopranos and seven for Mad Men, as well as three Golden Globe Awards for Mad Men.
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In 2011, Matthew Weiner was included in Time annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World".
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Matthew Weiner was born in 1965 in Baltimore to a Jewish family.
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Matthew Weiner attended The Park School of Baltimore and grew up in Los Angeles where he attended Harvard School for Boys.
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Matthew Weiner's father was a medical researcher and chair of the neurology department at University of Southern California.
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Matthew Weiner's mother graduated from law school but never practiced.
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Matthew Weiner enrolled in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, studying literature, philosophy, and history and earned an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.
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Matthew Weiner began his screenwriting career writing for the short-lived Fox sitcom Party Girl.
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Matthew Weiner was a writer and producer on The Naked Truth and Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
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Matthew Weiner wrote the pilot of Mad Men in 1999 as a spec script while working as a writer on Becker.
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Matthew Weiner served as a supervising producer for the fifth season of The Sopranos, a co-executive producer for the first part of the sixth season, and an executive producer for the second part of the sixth season.
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Matthew Weiner has sole or joint credit for 12 episodes overall, including the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated episodes "Unidentified Black Males" and "Kennedy and Heidi".
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Matthew Weiner spent the hiatus between the two seasons teaching at his alma mater, the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, where he taught an undergraduate screenwriting class on Feature Rewriting during the Fall 2004 semester.
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Matthew Weiner eventually pitched the series to AMC, which had never produced an original dramatic television series.
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Matthew Weiner served as showrunner, an executive producer, and head writer of Mad Men throughout its seven seasons.
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Matthew Weiner is credited with writing or co-writing seven episodes of the first season, eleven episodes of the second, twelve episodes of the third, ten of the fourth, nine of the fifth, ten of the sixth, and twelve of the seventh.
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Matthew Weiner has directed all seven season finales, along with the season seven midseason finale and the penultimate episode of the series.
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Matthew Weiner won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", in 2008, as well as being nominated for "The Wheel".
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Matthew Weiner was twice nominated for the WGA award for episodic drama at the February 2010 ceremony for his work on "The Grown-Ups" and "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency".
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In 2018, Matthew Weiner created The Romanoffs, an Amazon Video anthology series.
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One of their four sons, Marten Holden Matthew Weiner, played the recurring role of Glen Bishop on Mad Men.