Don Roos

Donald Paul Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director.<ref name=NYT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and career

Roos was born in upstate New York into a conservative Roman Catholic family of mostly Irish descent. He attended the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. After graduating, Roos moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a television screenwriting career.<ref>"The Family Guy Behind the Dark Comedies", nytimes.com. May 8, 2005. Accessed September 29, 2022.</ref>

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 playwright Mart Crowley (The Boys in the Band), who at the time was an executive producer of Hart to Hart. Roos wrote for The Colbys, Nightingales, and other TV shows, before his spec scripts led to feature film writing assignments. His first major film was 1992's Academy Award-nominated Love Field, an interracial drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Roos's work as the writer of the film Single White Female has earned him a permanent space in Hollywood movie trivia, since that title has entered the lexiconTemplate: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,Template:Citation needed a skill that has also been useful in his film direction, leading to Independent Spirit Award nominations for actors Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Roos himself has won a Best First Feature Independent Spirit Award, for The Opposite of Sex.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> 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 producer Dan Bucatinsky - he has two children, Eliza and Jonah.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1992	Single White Female	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Love Field	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1995	Boys on the Side	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1996	Diabolique	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
1998	The Opposite of Sex<ref name=NYT/>	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
2000	Bounce	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
2005	Happy Endings	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
2008	Marley & Me	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2009	The Other Woman	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
2018	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Creator	Notes
1989	Nightingales	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Wrote 2 episodes
2000	M.Y.O.B.	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Directed 2 episodes
2008-2014	Web Therapy	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes	Directed 131 episodes
2010	Who Do You Think You Are?	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	7 episodes
2011-2015	Web Therapy	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes	All 44 episodes
2017	Doubt	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Faith"
2017-2018	This Is Us	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episodes "The 20's" and "That'll Be the Day"
2017-2021	Younger	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	7 episodes
2020	Council of Dads	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	5 episodes
	Emily in Paris	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	4 episodes
2022	Uncoupled	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No	Episode "Chapter 5"

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