Alex Kurtzman is an American

United States

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 film

Film

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 and television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 screenwriter and producer.

Kurtzman was born and raised in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci

Roberto Orci

Roberto Gaston Orci is a Mexican-American film producer, television producer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Orci was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. His mother had left Cuba for Mexico after Fidel Castro came to power. He is the older brother of screenwriter-producer J....

. He attended Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

.

In 2011, Forbes

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magazine described Orci and Kurtzman as "Hollywood's Secret Weapons" who together "are the quiet force behind $3 billion in box office." He and Orci frequently work with J. J. Abrams

J. J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer. He wrote and produced feature films before co-creating the television series Felicity...

 and Michael Bay

Michael Bay

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 on projects. Amongst other work, Kurtzman is the co-creator, with Abrams and Orci, of the FOX science fiction

Science fiction

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 series Fringe

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...

.

Film credits

Year	Film	Notes
2005	The Island The Island (2005 film) The Island is a 2005 American science fiction/thriller film directed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was released on July 22, 2005 in the United States, and was nominated for three awards including the Teen Choice Award....	co-writer (screenplay)
	The Legend of Zorro The Legend of Zorro The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 sequel to The Mask of Zorro , both directed by Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles as the titular hero and his spouse, and Rufus Sewell stars as the villain...	co-writer (screenplay and story)
2006	Mission: Impossible III Mission: Impossible III Mission: Impossible III is a 2006 spy film, the third based on the spy-themed television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt....	co-writer (screenplay)
2007	Transformers	co-writer (screenplay and story)
2008	Eagle Eye Eagle Eye Eagle Eye is a 2008 thriller film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The two portray a young man and a single mother who are brought together and coerced by an anonymous caller into carrying out a plan by a possible terrorist organization...	producer
2009	Watchmen Watchmen (film) Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...	uncredited script polish (screenplay)
	Star Trek	co-writer and executive producer (screenplay and story)
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...	writer
2011	Cowboys & Aliens Cowboys & Aliens (film) Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western film directed by Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde. The film is based on the 2006 graphic novel of the same name created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg...	co-writer, producer
TBA	Welcome to People Welcome to People Welcome to People is an upcoming drama film directed by Alex Kurtzman as his directorial debut, written by Kurtzman, Jody Lambert and Roberto Orci, starring Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mark Duplass. The film has music composed by A. R...	director, co-writer,co-producer

Television credits

• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
  Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
  Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...
  
  , writer and co-executive producer
• Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess
  Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....
  
  , writer and co-executive producer
• Jack of All Trades, writer and executive producer
• Alias
  Alias (TV series)
  Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
  
  , writer and executive producer
• The Secret Service, co-creator, writer, executive producer
• Fringe
  Fringe (TV series)
  Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
  
  , co-creator, writer, executive producer
• Hawaii Five-0, executive producer
• Locke & Key
  Locke & Key
  Locke & Key is a comic book series written by Joe Hill, illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW Publishing.- Publication history :...
  
  , executive producer
• Transformers: Prime
  Transformers: Prime
  Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...
  
  , executive producer
• Space Ark: Legend of the Eco, executive producer

External links

• Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci Discuss Trek and Transformers at AMCtv.com