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Matthew Weiner (born 29 June 1965) is an American writer, director and producer of television drama. He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and show runner of the AMC television series Mad Men. He is also noted for his work on the HBO series The Sopranos, on which he served as a writer and producer during the show's fifth and sixth seasons. Weiner has received eight Emmy Awards for his work on Mad Men and The Sopranos as well as three Golden Globe Awards for Mad Men. Mad Men has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series three consecutive years (2008, 2009, 2010); the Sopranos (with Weiner as executive producer) won the same award twice (2004, 2007). Weiner was named one of the 2011 Time 100 Most Influential People In The World.

Early life and education = Weiner was born in 1965 in Baltimore to a Jewish-American family and grew up in Los Angeles. He enrolled in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, studying literature, philosophy, and history and earned an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television. Early career = Weiner began his screenwriting career as an uncredited joke-writer for the short-lived Fox sitcom Party Girl. He later went on to work as a writer and producer on The Naked Truth and Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Weiner wrote the pilot of Mad Men in 2000 as a spec script while working as a staff writer on Becker. The Sopranos creator and executive producer David Chase offered Weiner a job as a staff writer on his show after being impressed by the script. Weiner served as a writer and producer on The Sopranos during its final three seasons. He wrote or co-wrote a dozen episodes, including the Emmy Award-nominated episodes "Unidentified Black Males" (co-written with Terence Winter) and "Kennedy and Heidi" (co-written with David Chase). He received two Emmy Awards as a producer of The Sopranos — one for the show`s fifth season in 2004 and one for the second part of the show`s sixth season in 2007. Weiner also spent the hiatus between the two seasons teaching at his alma mater, the University of Southern Califoria School of Cinema-Television, where he taught an undergraduate screenwriting seminar on Rewrites for the Fall 2004 semester. Weiner frequently demonstrated rewriting techniques by showcasing several drafts of an unproduced pilot he had written several years prior. This would eventually become the pilot episode of the critically acclaimed series Mad Men.

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