Cyrus Nowrasteh

Cyrus Nowrasteh ( born September 19, 1956 in Boulder, Colorado, USA) is an American screenwriter and director with Iranian ancestors.

Life and achievements

Cyrus Nowrasteh is the son of a former counselor of the Shah of Persia. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, on. In 1974 he graduated from Madison West High School. Nowrasteh had a tennis scholarship at New Mexico State University. He moved to the USC School of Cinematic Arts (formerly the USC School of Cinema-Television ). In 1977, he completed this film school at the University of Southern California. In Los Angeles he gave tennis lessons and wrote screenplays. 1985 Nowrasteh wrote his first published script for the series The Equalizer in which Edward Woodward played the main character. Other TV shows followed. He was the author of the pilot episode of the dramatic spy series Nikita (1997). With Joel Surnow, the creator of this series, he is a friend, she had met through participation in The Equalizer.

Nowrasteh took over writing and directing the television drama The Day Reagan What Shot ( 2001) with Richard Dreyfuss, in which Oliver Stone was one of the producers. In 2002 he brought the script of The Day Reagan What shot and 2003 the script of 10,000 Black Men Named George each have a Literary Award at the PEN Center USA West Literary Award.

Cyrus Nowrasteh is with Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, actually Elizabeth Giffen Nowrasteh married, and has two children. His wife wrote the screenplay of the thriller Under Pressure ( Bad Day On the Block) (1997) with Charlie Sheen in the lead role.

Filmography

Screenwriter

Director

Producer

  • 2006: The Path to 9 /11 - ways of Terror
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