Frank Spotnitz

Birthday: 17 November 1960, Camp Zama, Japan

Award-winning American writer and producer Frank Spotnitz is the Chief Executive of Big Light Productions Ltd., a London- and Paris-based production company. Big Light creates and oversees a diverse slate of international television series, including drama, comedy and documentaries, and has become one of the fastest-growing independent production companies in Europe. Under the Big Light banner, Spotnitz has developed and executive produced: Amazon's most popular series, Emmy-winning The Man in the High Castle; the suspense drama series Ransom for CBS, TF1 and Corus; the comedy-drama The Indian Detective, starring internationally famous comedian Russell Peters, for CTV; Medici: Masters of Florence, starring Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman; Crossing Lines season 3 with Tandem/Studio Canal; and Transporter: The Series season 2 for the U.S.'s TNT, Germany's M6 and HBO Canada. Spotnitz's other credits include: Transporter: The Series (2014); Hunted (2012); Strike Back (2011); Samurai Girl (2008); Night Stalker (2005); Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division (2002); The Lone Gunmen (2001); Harsh Realm (2000); and Millennium (1997-1999). In 2006, Spotnitz co-wrote and created (with Vince Gilligan) a pilot for Spike TV called A.M.P.E.D. Spotnitz directed two episodes and wrote or co-wrote more than 40 episodes of The X-Files television series. He served as a producer and co-writer of both X-Files feature films, "Fight the Future" (1998) and "I Want to Believe" (2008). Spotnitz shares three Golden Globes for Best Dramatic Series and a Peabody Award for his work on The X-Files. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for writing and three times for Outstanding Drama Series. Born in Japan, Spotnitz received a B.A. in English literature from UCLA and an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He began his career as a newspaper and magazine writer, working for the Associated Press, United Press International and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Hide

(on the end of the TV series The X-Files) "You can't get the truth. You can't. There's a larger trut Show more (on the end of the TV series The X-Files) "You can't get the truth. You can't. There's a larger truth, though: that you can't harness the forces of the cosmos, but you may find somebody else. You may find another human being. That may be kind of corny and all of that, but that's really it: Love is the only truth we can hope to know, as human beings. That's what Mulder and Scully found after nine years. And that's a lot." Hide

Frank Spotnitz's FILMOGRAPHY

All as Actor (1) as Director (2) as Creator (7)

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