Chris Brancato Biography

Fast Facts

• Graduated from Brown University in the early 1980s, where he met future "First Wave" star Rob LaBelle
• Born to novelist Robin Brancato and teacher John Brancato
• Started out as a writer and executive story editor on the TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" in 1992
• Quote: "I'm a big believer in that if you can harness how the actors are really feeling and make that sort of a little bit part of the fiction you're creating it often serves the fiction quite well․"
• Quote: "[on season 10 of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"] "Greed is a motivator in many of the crimes you see on television but we wanted to make this batch have a kind of organizing principle, an exploration of love gone wrong․""
• After writing two episodes of the TV series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," he went on to become the showrunner and executive producer of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent․"
• Best known as the creator and executive producer of "First Wave" and as the writer and executive producer of "Hannibal․"
• Was interviewed in "Cyberex Online" several times
• Kim Howard Johnson interviewed him for "Starlog" in 1998
• Was featured in a 1999 article in "DreamWatch" called "The First Surge․"