Terence Winter
American television and film writer
Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He was the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014). Before creating Boardwalk Empire, Winter was a writer and executive producer for the HBO television series The Sopranos, from the show's second to sixth and final season (2000–2007).
In 2013, Winter wrote the screenplay to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street for which he received Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was also the co-creator, writer and executive producer of another HBO television drama series, Vinyl (2016), which ran for one season. He is an executive producer and writer on the Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King with Taylor Sheridan.
Early life and education
Winter was born in New York City. He grew up in a working-class family in Marine Park, Brooklyn. He went to a vocational high school in Brooklyn, studying to be an auto mechanic.
He studied at the New York University, where, in 1984, he received a bachelor's degree in political science with a minor in journalism.
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