Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn
Flynn at the 52nd New York Film Festival, September 2014
Flynn at the 52nd New York Film Festival, September 2014
Born (1971-02-24) February 24, 1971 (age 53)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • screenwriter
  • showrunner
  • producer
Alma mater
Period2007–present
Genre
Notable works
Spouse
Brett Nolan
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(m. 2007)​
Children2
Website
gillian-flynn.com

Gillian Schieber Flynn[1][2][3] (/ˈɡɪliən/;[4] born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012), all of which have received critical acclaim.[5] Her works have been translated into 40 languages,[6] and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.[7]

Flynn wrote the screenplay for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher, for which she won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for both the Writers Guild of America and the BAFTA awards, among others.

She also wrote and produced the HBO limited series adaptation of Sharp Objects, for which she received nominations for the Primetime Emmy and the Writers Guild of America Award. Additionally, Flynn also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2018 film Widows alongside director Steve McQueen.

Flynn served as showrunner, writer, and executive producer for Amazon Prime Video’s sci-fi thriller series Utopia (2020), which ran for one season. As of 2024, she is working on her fourth novel, to be published by Penguin Random House.

  1. ^ "Perdida (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Gone Girl-Spanish Language) (Vintage Espanol) (2014)". Best Little Bookshop. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  2. ^ "Heridas abiertas: (Sharp Objects Spanish-language Edition)". Abebooks. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  3. ^ "Heridas Abiertas: (Sharp Objects Spanish-Language Edition)". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  4. ^ "Gillian Flynn Talks About Dark Places". YouTube. Orion Publishing. September 25, 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference TG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Gillian Flynn". PRH Speakers Bureau. 30 May 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  7. ^ "Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 13, 2022.