David Benioff is the co-creator, showrunner, and writer of Game of Thrones. He is also known for writing Troy and co-writing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He was born David Friedman in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing.
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David Benioff is the co-creator, showrunner, and writer of Game of Thrones. He is also known for writing Troy and co-writing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He was born David Friedman in New York City, the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with ancestral roots in Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland and Russia. He has two older sisters, Suzy and Caroline, and grew up in Manhattan, first in Peter Cooper Village, then on 86th Street where he spent most of his childhood, before eventually moving near the U.N. headquarters when he was 16. He graduated from Collegiate School and Dartmouth College with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing in 1999. In 2001, People magazine included Beniof on its list of America’s Top 50 Most Eligible Bachelors.
As an adult, he began using the pen name DavidBenioff when his first novel was published in 2001. He explained that he did this to avoid confusion with other writers named David Friedman. For legal purposes, his copyright filings from the 2010s onward list him as \”David BenIOff Friedman\”. In 2006, he became interested in adapting George R. R. Martin’s novel A Song of Ice and Fire for television. He and D. B. Weiss previously worked on a script for a horror film titled The Winter Is Coming, which was greenlit in 2010. The show began airing on HBO in 2011. He also wrote the script for the psychological thriller Stay, directed by Marc Forster and starring Ewan McGregor.
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