Darren Star
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| Darren Star | |
| Born | 1961 |
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| Occupation | television producer, screenwriter |
Darren Bennett Star (born 1961) is an American producer and screenwriter, credited with creating a number of highly successful television series.
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[edit] Career
Star is best known for launching the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise via the successful television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place (both of which were co-produced with Aaron Spelling), and for his work on Sex and the City, which was based on a book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. In addition to creating these series, he wrote a number of scripts and directed some episodes.
Star attended the University of California in Los Angeles, where he majored in creative writing. At 24, he sold his first screenplay, Doin' Time on Planet Earth. At the time, he was living in a West Hollywood apartment complex that later served as the model for Melrose Place.
Star's other works include CBS's Central Park West (1995); The WB's Grosse Pointe (2000), which Star himself described as a satire of Beverly Hills, 90210; Fox's The $treet (2000); NBC's Miss Match (2003); Kitchen Confidential (2005); The CW's Runaway (2006); and ABC's Cashmere Mafia, which premiered in 2008. Star was also executive producer of Sex and the City: The Movie, which was released in 2008.
[edit] Future Projects
HBO is moving forward with a prostitution project, a Darren Star-penned pilot dubbed "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl". [1]
[edit] Personal
Star was raised in Potomac, Maryland, and attended Winston Churchill High School. His father is a retired orthodontist.
Star has residences in New York City and Los Angeles. He is openly gay.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Romesburg, Don (2003-02-18), "Saint Savant?" ([dead link]), The Advocate, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Feb_18/ai_97726489, retrieved on 2007-09-22
[edit] External links
- Star, Darren at the Internet Movie Database
- Archive of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns
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