Writers from Berkeley, California

The list Writers from Berkeley, California includes Ben Affleck, Andy Samberg, Nicole Richie, Roger Guenveur Smith and Akiva Schaffer. The list consists of 152 members.

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Berkeley, California

City in California, United States

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Ben Affleck

American actor and filmmaker (born 1972)

Overview: Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. His accolades include two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1972

Age: 52

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Television producers from Massachusetts 66T

Golden Raspberry Award winners 272T

Male actors of Scottish descent 224T
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Nicole Richie

American media personality (born 1981)

Overview: Nicole Camille Richie (née Escovedo; born September 21, 1981) is an American television personality, fashion designer, socialite, and actress. She came to prominence after appearing in the reality tel ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: American

Occupation: Fashion Designer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

Partner: Joel Madden (Married)

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Montclair College Preparatory School alumni 17T

Actresses from Berkeley, California 21T

Lionel Richie 7T
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Andy Samberg

American actor and comedian (born 1978)

Overview: David A. J. "Andy" Samberg (born August 18, 1978) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He is a member of the comedy music group The Lonely Island and was a cast member on Saturday ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Joanna Newsom (Married)

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Jewish American male comedians 179T

American male television writers 1,879T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
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Chloe Fineman

American actress and comedian (born 1988)

Overview: Chloe Rose Fineman (born July 20, 1988) is an American actress, writer, and comedian. Fineman began her career with The Groundlings improv troupe, and became a featured player on Saturday Night Live s ...

Date of birth: 20 July 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Casey Thomas Brown (Married)

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Jewish American female comedians 79T

21st-century American comedians 2,123T

21st-century American women writers 6,013T
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Roger Guenveur Smith

American actor

Overview: Roger Guenveur Smith (born, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer best known for his collaborations with Spike Lee.

Date of birth: 27 July 1955

Age: 69

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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21st-century American male writers 3,233T

American male dramatists and playwrights 800T

21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 329T
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Akiva Schaffer

American comedy writer, actor, and film director (born 1977)

Overview: Akiva D. Schaffer (born December 1, 1977) is an American film director, actor, and writer. He is a member of the comedy group the Lonely Island.

Date of birth: 1 December 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Partner: Liz Cackowski (Married)

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Comedy film directors 139T

American male television writers 1,879T

Screenwriters from California 1,055T
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Alice Waters

American chef, restaurateur, and author

Overview: Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef, restaurateur, food writer, and author. In 1971, she opened Chez Panisse, a restaurant in Berkeley, California, famous for its role in creating ...

Date of birth: 28 April 1944

Age: 80

Nationality: American

Occupation: Chef

Gender: Female

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American women chefs 142T

American women columnists 383T

James Beard Foundation Award winners 354T
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Eisa Davis

American playwright

Overview: Eisa Davis (born May 5, 1971) is an American playwright, actress and singer-songwriter. She is most commonly known for her work as a playwright, writing shows such as Bulrusher and Angela's Mixtape as ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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African-American dramatists and playwrights 130T

Harvard University alumni 12,696T

People from Berkeley, California 470T
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James Ivory

American film director

Overview: James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well ...

Date of birth: 7 June 1928

Age: 96

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 58T

Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award 95T

Screenwriters from California 1,055T
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Kathleen Winsor

American writer

Overview: Kathleen Winsor (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003) was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 historical novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway ...

Date of birth: 16 October 1919

Date of death: 26 May 2003

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women writers 5,363T

20th-century American novelists 5,576T

American women novelists 3,461T
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Amy Chua

Professor of law at Yale Law School

Overview: Amy Lynn Chua (born October 26, 1962) is an American law professor and writer.

Date of birth: 26 October 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: American

Occupation: Attorney

Gender: Female

Partner: Jed Rubenfeld (Married)

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American women political scientists 216T

American women memoirists 620T

21st-century memoirists 301T
12.

Reid Hoffman

American businessman

Overview: Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social ...

Date of birth: 5 August 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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21st-century philanthropists 248T

New America (organization) 32T

LinkedIn people 7T
13.

Mike Mignola

Comic creator

Overview: Michael Joseph Mignola (born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer best known for creating Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including B.P.R.D., Abe ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Cartoonist

Gender: Male

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DC Comics people 255T

Marvel Comics people 324T

21st-century American artists 700T
14.

Ursula K. Le Guin

US novelist

Overview: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1929

Date of death: 22 January 2018

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Translators of Gabriela Mistral 4T

Kroeber family 4T

2018 deaths 9,212T
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Marion Zimmer Bradley

American author (1930–1999)

Overview: Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1930

Date of death: 25 September 1999

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Pseudonymous women writers 644T

Novelists from New York (state) 1,277T

Writers from Albany, New York 63T
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Dave Eggers

American writer, editor, and publisher

Overview: Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is married to writer Vendela Vida with whom he has two children. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work ...

Date of birth: 12 March 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Personality

Gender: Male

Partner: Vendela Vida (Married)

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American book publishing company founders 13T

21st-century memoirists 301T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
17.

Robin Williams (writer)

American writer

Overview: Robin Patricia Williams (born October 9, 1953) is an American educator who has authored many popular computer-related books, as well as the book Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?. Among ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Shakespeare authorship theorists 48T

Shakespeare authorship question 26T

Macintosh operating systems 6T
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Aaron Cometbus

American drummer

Overview: Aaron Elliott (born May 20, 1968), better known as Aaron Cometbus, is an American musician, songwriter, and magazine editor, best known as the creator of the punk zine Cometbus.

Date of birth: 20 May 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

20th-century American drummers 1,414T
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Ariel Schrag

Writer

Overview: Ariel Schrag (born December 29, 1979) is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an early age for her autobiographical comics.

Date of birth: 29 December 1979

Age: 45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

American female comics artists 217T

Artists from Berkeley, California 70T
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Michael Chabon

American author and Pulitzer Prize winner

Overview: Michael Chabon ( SHAY-bon; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, Chabon spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Novelists from Pennsylvania 345T

21st-century American short story writers 1,024T

20th-century American short story writers 1,412T