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Kevin Williamson Biography
Kevin Williamson is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on March 14, 1965 in New Bern, North Carolina, United States. Writer who is best recognized for penning the enormously successful film, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
He wrote the film Scream, which starred Neve Campbell as Sydney Andrews.
After graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Though he landed a part on the soap opera Another World in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles the following year where he had small parts in In Living Color, a Roger Corman film, Hard Run, and in music videos. While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle (later retitled Teaching Mrs. Tingle) which was bought by a production company in 1995 and put on the shelf.
Williamson is openly gay. He came out to his friends and family in 1992. He is in a long-term relationship with stylist and Fashion Police host George Kotsiopoulos.
He came out of the closet to his friends and family in 1992.
Name | Kevin Williamson |
First Name | Kevin |
Last Name | Williamson |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Birthday | March 14 |
Birth Year | 1965 |
Place of Birth | New Bern |
Home Town | North Carolina |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Pisces |
Full/Birth Name | |
Parents | Faye Williamson, Wade Williamson |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Not Known |
Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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Kevin Williamson earned the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1996 for his work on Scream.
Kevin Williamson Net Worth
Kevin Williamson is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kevin Williamson's net worth $55 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville.
In 1996, he was the recipient of the Saturn Award for Best Writing for Scream.
Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, filmmaker and actor, best known for the creation of the TV series’ Dawson’s Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), The Following (2013–2015), Stalker (2014–2015) and more recently, Tell Me a Story (2018–2020).
Net Worth | $55 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | Screenwriter |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
In 1997, Williamson penned his next film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on a 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. Centered on four high school friends who accidentally run over a man and dump his body in an attempt to go on with their lives, the plot focuses on the four friends a year after the accident when they become the victims of a serial stalker. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success and helped launch the careers of actors Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe, going on to spawn two sequels, neither of which Williamson was involved with.
In 1997, Dimension Films released Scream 2, also written by Williamson. It, too, was a critical and box office hit and paved the way for two more installments, Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). The latter was written by Williamson.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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Height | Unknown |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
Eye Color | Not Available |
Hair Color | Not Available |
Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Inspired by the March 9, 1994, episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on Danny Rolling, a serial killer in Gainesville, Florida, who preyed on college students, Williamson wrote a horror movie script, originally titled Scary Movie. Its characters had seen many classic horror movies (e.g. Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street ) and knew all the clichés. Miramax bought the script for $400,000 for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995. Directed by Wes Craven, the film was renamed Scream, and released in The United States on December 20, 1996. It became a commercial blockbuster and critical success—ultimately drawing $173 million in ticket sales worldwide.
In 1999, Williamson created Wasteland, starring Rebecca Gayheart. A late night, sexualized version of his earlier show, Dawson’s Creek, it aired for just 3 episodes in October 1999 before being canceled. The remaining 10 episodes were aired on Showtime’s ShowNext channel in 2001.
Who is Kevin Williamson Dating?
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Kevin Williamson. You may help us to build the dating records for Kevin Williamson!In December 1995, the show was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin had been an executive, but it was rejected. Then in 1996, Stupin and Williamson went to, and struck a deal with, The WB. Williamson said, “I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie.” Dawson’s Creek premiered on The WB on January 20, 1998, and was an immediate hit that helped launch the newly created television network.
Facts & Trivia
Kevin Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kevin Williamson celebrates birthday on March 14 of every year.
In 1999, Williamson left the show to focus on other endeavors, among them ABC’s Wasteland, which failed to attract a sizable audience and was canceled after its thirteen-episode first season. He later returned to Dawson’s Creek to pen the two-part series finale in 2003.
How old was Kevin Williamson when he wrote Scream?
“I’m the old dude now,” he laughs. “When we were making Scream 1, I was the young kid and Wes was the old dude. Now, I think I’m the exact same age Wes was when he was directing Scream 1.” (At 56, Williamson is now just four years younger than Craven was at the time Scream was released.)
How old is Kevin Williamson?
57 years (March 14, 1965)
Did Kevin Williamson write h20?
The screenplay was based on a story by Kevin Williamson, with the original working title for the film being Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode. Williamson was initially hired to write a script, and the story was situated as a sequel to the previous six films, thereby keeping the timeline’s continuity.
Where did Kevin D Williamson go to college?
The University of Texas at Austin
Why did Kevin Williamson leave Dawson's Creek?
After two extremely successful seasons, Kevin Williamson, the creator and one of the lead writers of the hit-series, decided to leave Dawson’s Creek to work on other projects, according to Vanity Fair.
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