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Simon Kinberg Biography – Simon Kinberg Wiki
Simon Kinberg is a British-born American filmmaker. He wrote or produced several films in the 20th Century Fox X-Men film franchise, and has also written such films as Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Sherlock Holmes.
Filmmaker Kinberg graduated from Brentwood High School, and then from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude; in 2003 he received his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where he won the Zaki Gordon Fellowship for Screenwriting.
While still in film school, Kinberg sold a pitch to Warner Brothers, then went on to write scripts for Disney, Sony, and DreamWorks, working with Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer, among others.
After finishing school, Kinberg moved to Hollywood, where his first screenwriting credit was a sequel to the hit action film XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005). His next screenwriting venture was the screenplay for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, directed by Doug Liman and starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The script began as Kinberg’s thesis project for film school. Kinberg also wrote the pilot episode for a television adaptation of Mr. & Mrs. Smith for ABC TV. He also appears in the movie, in a scene with Brad Pitt.
Kinberg’s next screenwriting job was the third movie in the 20th Century Fox X-Men film series: X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), which he co-wrote with Zak Penn. Comic-book writer Chris Claremont, who wrote the Dark Phoenix storyline that served as the primary source material for the film, also wrote the novelization of the film and made Kinberg a character in the book.
Kinberg was the producer of X-Men: First Class (2011), and both writer and producer of This Means War (2012). He was also co-screenwriter and an executive producer of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in that same year. In 2013, Kinberg produced Elysium.
The following year, Kinberg was the writer and the producer of the film X-Men: Days of Future Past. That same year, he produced Let’s Be Cops. In 2015, Kinberg produced the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie and the live-action version of Cinderella at Disney. He also worked on Fantastic Four as writer and producer. His final film of the year was The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott.
He wrote and produced X-Men: Apocalypse, the next film in the X-Men franchise following X-Men: Days of Future Past. Kinberg produced 2016’s Deadpool, 2017’s Logan, 2018’s Deadpool 2, 2019’s Dark Phoenix (the latter of which also served as his directorial debut), and The New Mutants, all of which are X-Men spin-off films. He also produced Murder on the Orient Express, an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.
In television, he is an executive producer on ABC network’s Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutherland, Legion created by Noah Hawley for FX, and The Gifted on Fox. He executive produced the third revival of the science fiction anthology series, The Twilight Zone which premiered in 2019.
In July 2019, it was announced that Kinberg and his production company Genre Films were leaving Fox after 20 years. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Saturn Awards in 2016. He was named #61 on the list of 100 most powerful people in Hollywood by The Hollywood Reporter in 2016.
Simon Kinberg Age
He was born Simon David Kinberg on August 2, 1973, in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom.
Simon Kinberg Wife
Kinberg married Mali Heled in a Jewish ceremony on July 26, 2001. They have two sons. The couple separated in 2014 and were divorced in early 2017.
Simon Kinberg Partner
Kinberg became engaged to writer Cleo Wade by November 4, 2019. They have a daughter, born in 2020, and a second daughter in 2021.
Simon Kinberg Parents
He was born in Hammersmith, London, England to American parents Monica Menell-Kinberg and Jud Kinberg. Jud is a New York City-born writer and producer. From age six, he was raised in Los Angeles, California.
Simon Kinberg Net Worth
Simon Kinberg’s net worth is unknown. However, he made $500,000 in the movie X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), and in Deadpool (2016) he made $2,000,000.
In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter named Kinberg as the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood with a record US$16 million for two X-Men scripts, and named him as one of the highest-paid producers in Hollywood with US$40 million for Deadpool in their annual Hollywood Salaries issue.
Simon Kinberg Religion
He is Jewish.
Simon Kinberg Height
Kinberg stands at a height of 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall.
His Instagram handle is @simondavidkinberg.
