J.J. ABRAMS (director/co-writer) is the co-creator and executive producer of the enormously successful television series “Lost,” “Alias,” and “Felicity.” In 2005, he won two Emmy Awards, for outstanding drama series and outstanding directing for a drama series (both for “Lost”) and was nominated for a third, for outstanding writing for a drama series. Abrams received his first Emmy nomination in 2002 for outstanding writing for a drama series for his work on “Alias.” Abrams is also the screenwriter of such films as “Armageddon,” “Forever Young” and “Regarding Henry.”
Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Abrams developed a passion for movies at age eight when his grandfather took him on the Universal Studios Tour. He asked his father if he could use his Super 8mm camera to make his own films. Over the next ten years, Abrams made countless amateur films that he entered in various student festivals, winning a number of awards.
Abrams sold his first feature film treatment, “Taking Care of Business,” while attending Sarah Lawrence College. He followed that with “Regarding Henry,” starring Harrison Ford and “Forever Young,” starring Mel Gibson. His feature producing credits include “The Pallbearer,” directed by “Felicity” co-creator Matt Reeves, and “The Suburbans,” with Jennifer Love Hewitt. He has also appeared on screen as an actor in “Diabolique” and “Six Degrees of Separation.”
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