Aaron Sorkin
TV Writer
1961 –
Who is Aaron Sorkin?
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy-award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball and The Newsroom.
In television, Sorkin is known as a controlling writer, who rarely shares the credit of penning screenplays. His trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.
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- Born
- Jun 9, 1961
Manhattan - Also known as
- Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Julia Bingham
(1996/04/13 - 2005)
- Julia Bingham
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University
- Scarsdale High School
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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