Don Roos
Born	(1955-04-14)April 14, 1955 (age 70) New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, director, producer
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Dan Bucatinsky ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	2

Donald Paul Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an Americanscreenwriter andfilm director.^[1]

Roos was born in upstate New York into a conservative Roman Catholic family of mostly Irish descent. He attended theUniversity of Notre Dame in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a television screenwriting career.^[2]

Roos supported himself by working as a word processor, and to this day jokes that he has that as a fall-back plan. Roos began his writing career when he had a friend of his impersonate an agent and represent him; a phone call led to a job with playwrightMart Crowley (The Boys in the Band), who at the time was an executive producer ofHart to Hart. Roos wrote forThe Colbys,Nightingales, and other TV shows, before his spec scripts led to feature film writing assignments. His first major film was 1992'sAcademy Award-nominatedLove Field, an interracial drama starringMichelle Pfeiffer andDennis Haysbert.^[3]

Roos's work as the writer of the filmSingle White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexicon^{[citation needed]} in reference to the film's psychopathic lead character who begins to take on her roommate's identity.

Roos is well known for his work writing strong and engaging female characters,^{[citation needed]} a skill that has also been useful in his film direction, leading toIndependent Spirit Award nominations for actorsLisa Kudrow,Christina Ricci andMaggie Gyllenhaal. Roos himself has won a Best First Feature Independent Spirit Award, forThe Opposite of Sex.^[4] Roos has polished or written the screenplay to many high-profile studio films, sometimes as uncredited script doctor.

With his husband - actor, writer, and film producerDan Bucatinsky - he has two children, Eliza and Jonah.

Film

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