Jason Fuchs
Fuchs at thePan premiere in September 2015
Born	Jason Isaac Fuchs (1986-03-05)March 5, 1986 (age 39) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupations	Actor screenwriter
Years active	1996–present

Jason Isaac Fuchs (born March 5, 1986) is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for writingIce Age: Continental Drift (2012),Pan (2015) andWonder Woman (2017). He is also known for his role as Lawrence Grey on theFox dramatic thrillerThe Passage. In January 2015, Fuchs was included on theForbes 30 Under 30 list.^[1]

As a writer, his films have grossed over $1.9 billion at the global box office, making him one of the 100 highest grossing screenwriters of all time, one of only two writers under age 40 on that list.^[2]

Fuchs was born inNew York City, to aJewish family (ofHasidic background on his father's side).^[3][4] He went on to enroll and graduate fromColumbia University in 2009 as a film studies major.^[5]

Fuchs has been acting since he was seven years old, making his debut atLincoln Center in the playAbe Lincoln in Illinois withSam Waterston. Fuchs has also guest-starred onCosby,The Sopranos,The Beat,Law & Order: Criminal Intent,Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,Ed, andAll My Children. His first feature film role was as Marvin in the 1996 movieFlipper, co-starringElijah Wood. In 1998 he appeared in two movies,Louis & Frank andJane Austen's Mafia!. Fuchs also starred in 2003 filmThe Hebrew Hammer, co-starringAdam Goldberg.

In 2004, Fuchs took the role inWinter Solstice. Fuchs wrote, produced and starred in the 2006 short filmPitch, which made its premiere at the 2006Cannes Film Festival. He next appeared inHoly Rollers, a movie inspired by actual events in the late nineties whenHasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States. He played a brother ofJustin Bartha's character, alongsideJesse Eisenberg andAri Graynor.

In 2012, Fuchs' original TV movie musical,Rags, was broadcast onNickelodeon. The film, which Fuchs co-wrote with Hillary Galanoy & Elizabeth Hackett withBillie Woodruff directing, was a revisionist take on theCinderella tale, starringKeke Palmer andMax Schneider.^[6] The film received 3.5 million live viewers.^[7]

Later that year, Fuchs made his feature screenwriting debut with the animated sequelIce Age: Continental Drift. Despite receiving generally mixed reviews from critics,^[8] the film grossed $877 million at the box office, making it thefifth highest-grossing film of 2012,^[9] and thehighest-grossing animated film internationally to that point.^[10]

His scriptPan was listed on Hollywood's 2013Black List,^[11] and was made into a2015 film, which was a critical and box office failure.^[12]

Fuchs co-wrote the 2017 filmWonder Woman withZack Snyder andAllan Heinberg.^[13] In 2016, Warner Bros. hired Fuchs to write the script for aLobo feature film,^[14] and a film adaptation of the video gameMinecraft.^[15] Fuchs stopped working on the script for theMinecraft film in August 2018.^[16]

In 2019, Fuchs was featured in a major recurring role as Lawrence Grey on the Fox seriesThe Passage.^[17]

In November 2022, it was announced that Fuchs was one of the showrunners ofIt: Welcome to Derry, an upcoming prequel series to the horror filmsIt andIt Chapter Two.^[18]

• 2018:Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay forWonder Woman (Nominated)
• 2018:USC Scripter Award for Best Adapted Screenplay forWonder Woman (Nominated)
• 2018:Saturn Award for Best Film Screenplay forWonder Woman (Nominated)
• 2018:Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form forWonder Woman (Won)
• 2019/2020:Saturn Award for Best Horror Film forIt Chapter Two (Nominated)
• 2025:Saturn Award for Best Action / Adventure Film forArgylle (Nominated)

• Jason Fuchs atIMDb

• 1986 births
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• American male television actors
• American male video game actors
• Jewish American male actors
• Living people
• Male actors from New York City
• Columbia College (New York) alumni
• 21st-century American Jews
• Hugo Award–winning writers

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