Producers, Directors, Actresses and Writers to avoid
by koopman-pg | created - 5 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | PublicJust a list of people trying to push a political agenda instead of make good television.
1. Clare Kilner
Director | House of the Dragon
Clare Kilner is known for House of the Dragon (2022), The Mosquito Coast (2021) and Snowpiercer (2020). She has been married to Martin Foster since August 29, 2007. They have one child.
2. Lex Edness
Writer | Gen V
Lex Edness is known for Gen V (2023), Dirty John (2018) and Physical (2021).
3. Sasha Garron
Writer | Ted Lasso
Sasha Garron is known for Ted Lasso (2020), Turnt (2018) and The Power Within (2024).
4. Keeley Hazell
Actress | Ted Lasso
Keeley Hazell was born in the London borough of Lewisham, grew up in Grove Park and attended the Ravensbourne School in Bromley. Her mother, Amber, was a dinner lady and her father, Roy, was a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen years old. At 16 years of age, Hazell left school to ...
5. Dylan Marron
Writer | Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People
Dylan Marron is known for Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People (2016), Ted Lasso (2020) and Franchesca and Show (2019). He is married to Todd Clayton.
6. Tim Heitz
Animation_department | Megamind
Tim Heitz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is a director, known for TROLLS BAND TOGETHER and TROLLS: HOLIDAY IN HARMONY. Tim has also contributed to many projects as a story artist, including HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD (2014), MEGAMIND (2010), and MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST...
7. Walt Dohrn
Actor | Trolls
Walter Dohrn is an American animator, writer and voice actor from Orange County who is mostly known for voicing Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek Forever After. He also wrote several episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants including Sailor Mouth and voiced in other DreamWorks Animation films such as Trolls, ...
8. Kathleen Kennedy
Producer | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Eight-time Academy Award®-nominated, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers and executives in the film industry today. As President of Lucasfilm, she oversees the company's three divisions: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In 1992, she ...
9. Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress | Solo: A Star Wars Story
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-2019). She was also the show-runner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller ...
10. Brie Larson
Actress | Room
Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
11. Viola Davis
Actress | Fences
Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...
12. Rachel Zegler
Soundtrack | West Side Story
Rachel Zegler is a singer and songwriter, raised in New Jersey by her American father and Colombian mother. Having been one of 30,000 people to audition, she was selected to play the role of Maria in Steven Spielberg's remake of the classic West Side Story (2021), opposite Ansel Elgort as Tony. She...
13. Mariko Tamaki
Writer | Goosebumps
Mariko Tamaki is known for Goosebumps (2023), Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) and Supergirl (2015).
14. Matt Fraction
Writer | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Matt Fraction was born on December 1, 1975 in Chicago Heights, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), Casanova and Iron Man 2 (2010). He has been married to Kelly Sue DeConnick since September 29, 2002.
15. Chris Black
Producer | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Chris Black is known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), Severance (2022) and Outcast (2016).
16. Dave Filoni
Producer | The Mandalorian
Dave grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb southwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was in the marching band, and was the starting goaltender for half of his senior year on the hockey team. He graduated from high school in 1992 and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1996, where he played club ...
17. Amanda Overton
Writer | Severance
Amanda Overton is known for Severance (2022), Arcane (2021) and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023).
18. April Shih
Writer | You're the Worst
April Shih was born on April 30, 1985 in Torrance, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for You're the Worst (2014), Mrs. America (2020) and Dave (2020).
19. Noah Hawley
Writer | Fargo
Award-winning Noah Hawley is one of the most accomplished auteurs and versatile storytellers working in television, film and literature. Hawley balances the art of telling cinematic, unforgettable character-driven stories that linger along after you've been immersed in them.
Over the course of his ...
20. David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
Writer | Aquaman
David Leslie Johnson was raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He developed an early interest in storytelling and began writing plays in the second grade. He attended The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Cinema.
Not long after, he ...
21. James Wan
Writer | Saw
James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...
22. Taika Waititi
Producer | What We Do in the Shadows
Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...
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