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Sam Esmail

Sam Esmail

Director · Born September 17, 1977 · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

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Biography

Sam Esmail (born September 17, 1977) is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter who runs Esmail Corp. He is best known as the creator, writer, and director of the award-winning USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), starring Rami Malek. He wrote and directed the feature films Comet (2014) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He produced and directed the first season of the acclaimed Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller Homecoming (2018–2020), starring Julia Roberts and Janelle Monáe, and produced USA's Briarpatch (2020), Starz's Gaslit (2022), and Peacock's Angelyne (2022) and The Resort (2022). Esmail's work often centres on alienation, technology, and American society. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Esmail, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed 6

2000s

  1. 2004

    Deep Down in Florida

    Director

Produced 13

2010s

  1. 2018
  2. 2017

    Risk

    Executive Producer

  3. 2016

    The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie

    Executive Producer

  4. 2015

2000s

  1. 2002

    The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special

    Producer

No release date

  1. Famous

    Producer

Wrote 6

2010s

  1. 2016

    The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie

    Writer

  2. 2015
  3. 2014

Acted in 2

Created 2

Edited 1

2000s

  1. 2006

    Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy

    Editor

Appearances4
Thanked in the credits1

2020s

  1. 2026