
Ryan Murphy
9 FOLLOWERS • 42 CREDITS • NOV 9, 1965 • 59
Biography
Ryan Patrick Murphy (born November 9, 1965) is an American television writer, director, and producer.
He is best known for creating and producing a number of television series including Popular (1999–2001), Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), Glee (2009–2015), American Horror Story (2011–present), Scream Queens (2015–2016), American Crime Story (2016–present), Pose (2018–2021), 9-1-1 (2018–present), The Politician (2019–2020), 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020–present), Ratched (2020), American Horror Stories (2021–present), and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022). Murphy also directed the 2006 film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' memoir Running with Scissors, the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love, the 2014 film adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, and the 2020 film adaptation of the musical The Prom.
Murphy has received six Primetime Emmy Awards from 36 nominations, a Tony Award from two nominations, and two Grammy Award nominations. He has often been cited as "the most powerful man" in modern television, including having signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses".
Known For
Production Credits

All's Fair

A Secret Love

Hollywood

The Andy Warhol Diaries

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

POSE

The Politician

Mid-Century Modern

9-1-1: Lone Star

Halston

American Sports Story

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

The New Normal

American Crime Story

The Watcher

The Original Monster

Grotesquerie

9-1-1

Pretty/Handsome

Ratched

Monsters

American Horror Stories

Glee: The Concert Movie

Circus of Books

Nip/Tuck

Eat Pray Love

The Boys in the Band

Glee

The Prom

FEUD

Scream Queens

Doctor Odyssey

American Love Story

The Beauty

American Horror Story
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