Dan Fogelman Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in a Jewish family
• Started writing his first screenplay around the age of 25
• The road trip he took with his mother from New Jersey to Las Vegas inspired his movie The Guilt Trip (2012)
• The father in the sitcom The Neighbors is named after his father Marty and the daughter is based on his sister
• The death of his mother and meeting his wife a year later inspired his movie Life Itself (2018)
• Best known for the television series This Is Us