Dan Fogelman

 ( 21st-century American Jews ) 

Dan Fogelman is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, whose screenplays include Cars, Bolt, Tangled, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. He also created the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors, the 2015 fairy tale-themed musical comedy series Galavant, the 2016 drama series This Is Us, the 2016 baseball drama series Pitch, and the 2025 drama series Paradise.

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Biography Fogelman grew up in what he has called an "endearingly dysfunctional" Jewish family in River Vale, New Jersey.Youngmisuk, Ohm. "Derrick Ward goes from movie gofer to Giant attraction", Daily News (New York), September 30, 2007. Accessed August 19, 2013. "Dan Fogelman has a movie debuting this Christmas called Fred Claus starring Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti and Kevin Spacey.... Now the kid who used to run to get coffee and sandwiches is the starting running back for the New York Giants. 'It blows my mind,' says Fogelman, a lifelong Giants fan who grew up in River Vale, N.J." He attended Pascack Valley High School in nearby Hillsdale.Gladstone, Douglas J. " This Is Us Is Back (Now Stop Sobbing); NJ native Dan Fogelman never imagined his hit series This Is Us would make viewers cry so much.", New Jersey Monthly, October 6, 2017. Accessed November 2, 2017. "'When I started showing the pilot to people it started happening,' says Fogelman, who grew up in River Vale and attended Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale." He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1997. He and his mother, Joyce, took a road trip from New Jersey to Las Vegas that became the basis for his 2012 film comedy The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen as a mother and son on a cross-country road trip. His father, named Marty, became the namesake of the father in the 2012 television sitcom The Neighbors created by Fogelman, who has a sister who inspired the family daughter in this series. He is married to Caitlin Thompson, who stars as Madison on his family drama This Is Us. They have a son, born in 2020.

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Filmography

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Films

Also uncredited wrote an earlier draft for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).

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Television films

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Television series

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Categories: 21st-century American Jews, 21st-century American Male Writers, American Male Screenwriters, American Male Television Writers, American Television Writers, Animation Screenwriters, Jewish American Screenwriters, Jewish American Television Writers, Living People, Pascack Valley High School Alumni, People From River Vale, New Jersey, Pixar People, Screenwriters From New Jersey, Television Producers From New Jersey, This Is Us, Walt Disney Animation Studios People, Writers From Bergen County, New Jersey, Year Of Birth Missing

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