Matt Nix Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for best television episode teleplay for "Burn Notice" in 2008
• Graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and was a UCLA Alumni Scholar
• Nix is the great-grandson of writer Harry Chandlee, who wrote classic movies like "Sergeant York," "Our Town" and "The Jolson Story․"
• Quote: "To be honest, I didn't take TV seriously․ It seemed unlikely that my first TV script, based on spy books I read when I was a kid, would get made․"
• Best known as the writer and producer of "Burn Notice" and "The Good Guys․"
• Provided the voice in the intro sequence of every episode of "Burn Notice" that says, "We got a burn notice on you․ You're blacklisted․"
• Was such a big fan of the TV series "M*A*S*H" as a kid that he watched it every day and memorized entire episodes