Actor

Dan Gilroy

Writing

Career Snapshot

Explained

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

2.2

Moderate attention

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Movies: 15Series: 1Crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 57113

IMDb ID: nm0319659

Known for: Writing

Born: June 24, 1959

Age: 66

Place of birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1992 - 2025

Years active: 34

Average TMDB rating: 6.46

Wikidata: Q1159073

Also known as

Daniel Christopher Gilroy • 댄 길로이

Other jobs

Screenplay (5)Director (3)Writer (2)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)Story (1)Thanks (1)

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Biography

Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year.