Dan Jinks Biography

Fast Facts

• Shared an AFI Award for "Milk" in 2009 with partner Bruce Cohen
• Often works in conjunction with the Motion Picture & Television Fund
• Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
• Quote: "Viewers want to watch a program where they can escape from their own personal worlds and find themselves in our characters' charming universe․"
• A longtime collaborator with Bruce Cohen, the two have gone on to produce Oscar-winning films including "Milk" and "American Beauty" among others
• Following his initial success in television with ABC, he signed an two-year overall deal with CBS Studios in 2011
• After years of working on features exclusively, he and Cohen began working on various television series including ABC's "Pushing Daisies"
• His father Larry is a longtime newspaper executive based out of Miami