11 Facts About Michael Zimbalist

Michael Zimbalist is a three-time Emmy Award and a Peabody Awards winner.

Michael Zimbalist graduated from Wesleyan University and trained as an actor at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Michael Zimbalist is a director, producer, and writer whose films have been broadcast on HBO, Netflix, Apple, Fox, Showtime, PBS, ESPN and the BBC, as well as theatrically distributed worldwide.

Michael Zimbalist has produced and directed commercial work for RealTruck, Gatorade, Pepsi, Verizon, and the NFL.

In 2010, Michael wrote, directed and produced The Two Escobars with his brother Jeff Zimbalist.

Between 2010 and 2014, Michael produced four entries in the 30 for 30 series, including Arnold's Blueprint with Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Myth of Garrincha, and Youngstown Boys, about Maurice Clarett and Jim Tressel.

Youngstown Boys, which Michael Zimbalist co-wrote and directed, won the Sports Emmy Award in 2014.

In 2017, Michael Zimbalist wrote the story for and associate produced Loving Pablo, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Universal Studios.

In 2018, Michael Zimbalist co-wrote, produced and directed Nossa Chape, the critically acclaimed story of the Chapecoense soccer club airplane crash, which premiered at SXSW and was released in theaters and later broadcast by Fox.

Also in 2018, Michael Zimbalist co-wrote, produced and directed the feature documentary Give Us This Day, about three police officers and three residents in East St Louis, the city with the highest homicide rate in the country, executive produced by Vince Vaughn.

Additionally, in 2018, Michael Zimbalist produced and directed 6 episodes of Fox's series Phenoms, about young footballers in the lead up to the World Cup.