Matthew Gross Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up with a business manager father and a TV movie producer mother
• Originally wanted to be an actor, but after a short film he made for his thesis at the age of 19 was nominated for an Oscar, he settled on a different path
• Quote: "I'm known for coming up with the big ideas, bringing in the right writers and packaging the project with the right elements․ I am an idea factory․"
• Quote: "When I get passionate about something, I'm unstoppable․ That's what it takes to be a producer․"
• While working as president of Arnold Kopelson Entertainment, he was one of the first producers to hire feature film writers for television projects
• As a production executive with Wilshire Court, he was involved in over 75 projects
• As president of Gross Entertainment, he produced such television shows as "Day Break" and such films as "Across the Universe․"