Chris Brancato

Birth Name:

Chris Brancato

Birth Place:

Teaneck, New Jersey, United States

Profession

Writer, Producer, Script department

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․"

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