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FARHAD SAFINIA, Executive Producer & Creator
Farhad Safinia is the creator and executive producer of the Golden Globe ® nominated STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Previously, Safinia co-wrote and co-produced the feature film Apocalypto with director Mel Gibson. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007.
His other recent film projects include an adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World for
Universal Pictures with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star and Ridley Scott to direct, and Sony Pictures’ the Allen Counter Project for Will Smith to star in and produce.
DEE JOHNSON, Executive Producer
Dee Johnson is the executive producer and showrunner of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Dee began her writing career on NBC’s “I’ll Fly Away” and continued to rise in the ranks, writing for such acclaimed series as “Melrose Place,” “Homicide: Life On the Streets,” “The Profiler,” “Any Day Now” and
“Southland.”
In addition to pursuing her own development slate, she has also served as executive producer on
“Commander in Chief,” the Emmy® Award-winning series “ER” and “The Good Wife.”
KELSEY GRAMMER, Executive Producer
Kelsey Grammer takes on two leading roles in the STARZ Original series “Boss,” in which he stars as
Mayor Tom Kane and serves as an executive producer. For his portrayal of Kane in season one, he earned a Golden Globe ® Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama. “Boss” also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Drama Series.
Grammer has excelled to the highest level in theatre, television and film, as an actor, producer, executive producer and director. An initial role as D r. Frasier Crane on “Cheers” developed into the cornerstone of the Juilliardtrained actor’s career. Grammer played the celebrated character in three different television series (“Cheers,” “Wings” and “Frasier”) over a span of 20 years, tying the record for longest-running television character.
Portraying Crane, Grammer has won four Emmys ®, two Golden Globes and a SAG® Award and has received an unparalleled 16 Emmy nominations, eight Golden Globe nominations and 16 SAG nominations.
Almost 20 years ago, Grammer created what is now known as Grammnet NH Productions, a TV production company which has produced such hit television shows as the Emmywinning “Medium,” for
NBC and “The Game” and “Girlfriends” for CW. Other producing credits include the NBC productions “The
Innocent,” “Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny,” “Fired Up,” “In Laws” and “Gary the Rat.” For PAX, he produced “World Cup Comedy.” For FOX, he starred in and produced “Kelsey Grammer Presents: The
Sketch Show.” He also took on the roles of director and executive producer on the comedy pilot “Alligator
Point,” for Lifetime.
Grammer has directed single episodes of “Everybody Hates Chris,” “My Ex Life” and “Out of Practice.” He has also directed several episodes of “Frasier,” one of which earned him a DGA nomination.
Grammer also starred in and served as executive producer of the ABC comedy “Hank.”

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Also accomplished as a voiceover artist, Grammer plays the character Sideshow Bob on “The
Simpsons,” for which he won an Emmy in 2006. He has also lent his voice to the feature films Toy Story
2 , Anastasia and Teacher’s Pet , to the television series “Father of the Pride” and “Gary the Rat,” and to the Emmynominated “Animal Farm” for TNT.
Grammer’s other acting credits include MGM’s remake of Fame , Paramount Pictures’ Middle Men ,
Vivendi Universal’s An American Carol , Disney’s Swing Vote , FOX’s blockbuster hit X-Men: The Last
Stand , FOX’s “Back To You” for which he also served as executive producer, “A Christmas Carol” for
NBC, “Benedict Arnold” for A&E, “Mr. St. Nick” for ABC’s Hallmark Hall of Fame, 15 Minutes for New Line
Cinema, Down Periscope for 20th Century Fox and Even Money for Yari Film Group.
Grammer began acting in plays at Pine Crest Preparatory School in Fort Lauderdale, where his teenage stage success inspired him to apply to Juilliard. He developed an interest in Shakespeare and began his professional acting career at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Reminiscing, Grammer says, “When I was 21, I was painting offices for a famous director. As I stood at the top of the ladder, the casting director of the San Diego Shakespeare Festival looked up at me and said, ‘You’re an actor, aren’t you?’ - I don’t know how he got this from my butt!” The director offered him the chance to audition, and he spent three years performing Shakespeare and Shaw. He continued in regional theatre, and finally made his way to
New York with roles in the offBroadway productions “Sunday in the Park with George,” “A Month in the
Country” and the Obie Award-winning “Quartermaine’s Terms.” He scored on Broadway in “Macbeth” and
“Othello.”
Before long he appeared in two TV miniseries: first as Stephen Smith in “Kennedy” (NBC, 1983), and next as Lieutenant Stewart in “George Washington” (CBS, 1984). Grammer then landed the role of Dr. Frasier
Crane in “Cheers.” Originally, the show’s creators wanted John Lithgow for a brief recurring role, but the actor was unavailable. Grammer’s former Juilliard classmate Mandy Patinkin suggested him to the New
York casting director and he got the job, parlaying six episodes into a career that would span two decades, after which he would return to the stage and receive critical acclaim as Professor Higgins in “My
Fair Lady.” He also performed the title role in “Richard II” and Lucio in “Measure for Measure” at the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
In 2010, Grammer starred in “La Cage aux Folles” on Broadway for which he received rave reviews as nightclub owner Georges. His performance earned him a Tony ® nomination for Best Performance by a
Leading Actor in a Musical.
Grammer was born in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and was raised in New Jersey and Florida.
GUS VAN SANT, Executive Producer
Gus Van Sant is an executive producer of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Van Sant has been winning over critics and audiences alike since bursting onto the scene with his widely acclaimed feature film Mala Noche (1985), which won the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best
Independent/Experimental Film of 1987. Van Sant’s body of work includes many hallmarks of 90’s independent cinema, notably Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and Even
Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993). Van Sant’s direction of Nicole Kidman in the black comedy To Die For
(1995) won a Golden Globe ® Award and was screened at the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals.
Van Sant received a Best Director Academy Award ® nomination for Good Will Hunting (1997), which received a total of nine Academy Awards. Van Sant followed with the controversial remake of a classic
Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Psycho (1998), which was the first shot-for-shot recreation of a film. The new millennium brought the release of the literary drama Finding Forrester (2000).

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Van Sant returned to his indie roots with the beautiful and austere Gerry (2002), which he wrote with the film’s stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The experience of making Gerry inspired Van Sant to write and direct Elephant (2003), a compelling reverie on a normal day of high school that is destroyed by a
Columbinelike massacre. Shot in Van Sant’s home town of Portland with a cast of non-actors, Elephant went on to win th e Palme d’Or® and Best Director award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. Last Days
(2005) followed and won a sound design award at Cannes. Next Van Sant adapted the novel Paranoid
Park (2007) by Blake Nelson to the screen. Once again he cast non-actors and the film won the 60th
Anniversary Award at Cannes.
In 2008 Van Sant was again nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for Milk , which earned a total of eight nominations, and won in the categories of best actor for Sean Penn’s performance as Harvey
Milk, and best screenplay for Lance Black’s writing. This success was followed by Restless , which was released in the fall of 2011. Van Sant is currently in pre-production for Promisedland , which was written by its co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski.
Throughout his career Mr. Van Sant has continued to make evocative short films, which have been winning awards at film festivals worldwide. These works include an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ short story “The Discipline of DE,” a deadpan black-and-white gem shown at the New York Film Festival.
In 1996 Van Sant directed Allen Ginsb erg reading his own poem, “Ballad of the Skeletons,” to the music of Paul McCartney and Philip Glass, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Other acclaimed shorts include “Five Ways to Kill Yourself” (1987), “Thanksgiving Prayer” (1991, a re-teaming with Burroughs), “Le Marais” (2006), a segment of the compilation project “Paris, Je T’aime,” and
“Mansion on the Hill” (2008), which is part of the UN funded project 8, created to raise awareness about essential issues the world is facing today.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Van Sant earned a BA at the Rhode Island School of Design before moving to Hollywood. Early in his career he spent two years in New York creating commercials for Madison
Avenue. Eventually he settled in Portland, Oregon, where in addition to directing and producing, he pursued painting, photography, and writing. In 1995, he released a collection of photos entitled “108
Portraits” (Twelvetrees Press) and two years later published his first novel, Pink (Doubleday), a satire on filmmaking. A longtime musician himself, Van Sant has directed music videos for many top recording artists including David Bowie, Elton John, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Hanson.
BRIAN SHER, Executive Producer
Brian Sher began his career as a trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom in 1997. There he began selling scripts as an assistant, and in 1999, the Broder Kurland agency recruited him as a Motion Picture literary agent. At Broder, Sher quickly made a name for himself by finding and selling several scripts that quickly became films including Serendipity , Dude Where’s My Car?
and Not Another Teen Movie .
In 2001, The Hollywood Reporter featured Sher in its prestigious "35 Under 35" list. Sher was the fastest agent to make that list, after just two years on the job.
Sher was then recruited by all of the major agencies, and he landed at ICM where he went on to work as an agent for seven years. At ICM, Sher made an immediate impact where he discovered the script Hitch and packaged it with Will Smith. Hitch became the highest grossing romantic comedy in box office history. While Sher continued to grow an impressive client list of writers and directors, he also began working with several of the agency's biggest movie stars, including Richard Gere, Steve Martin, Julia
Roberts, Mel Gibson, and Denzel Washington. Along with super-agent Ed Limato, Sher became Denzel
Washington's primary agent, working with the actor on day-to-day packaging projects, one of which was
The Great Debaters , produced by Oprah Winfrey and Harvey Weinstein. He also began signing young actors on his own, including rapper/actor/producer T.I., who was featured in the films ATL , American
Gangster , and Takers .

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Sher departed ICM in 2009, taking several of his high-end clients, and started his own managementproduction company named Category 5 Entertainment, with a goal of producing scripted and non-scripted television shows. He immediately created and executive produced T.I.'s highly rated “Road to
Redemptio n” (MTV) and the highly successful “Michael Vick Project” (BET).
In addition to Category 5, Sher partnered in 2010 with multi-hyphenate star Kelsey Grammer to run
Grammnet NH Productions, whose longrunning projects include the television series “Medium” (NBC),
“The Game” (CW), and “Girlfriends” (CW). With Sher, Grammnet NH immediately developed, packaged, and sold “Boss,” STARZ new critically acclaimed show that features Grammer in the lead. Grammnet NH also recently announced a halfhour comedy pilot for USA Network called “The Dicicco Brothers.” In the last year Grammnet NH has also put multiple scripted projects in development at broadcast and cable networks such as FOX, TBS and VH1 to name a few.
In 2011, Sher and Grammer partnered with reality maven Stella Bulochnikov to form G3 Entertainment. In the non-scripted space, Sher and Bulochnikov recently created and executive produced VH1's hottest and highest rated show “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle,” which was recently renewed for a second cycle.
Separately, G3 has recently sold a game show to TNT and has several talent-driven projects in development.
Sher grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Tulane University and the University of Southern
California. He has two children: Jake, 10, and Samantha, 7.
STELLA BULOCHNIKOV, Executive Producer
Stella Bulochnikov, a television producer, is known for her ability to tap into the zeitgeist and create format-ready shows around A-level talent.
In April 2009, Bulochnikov launched Wikked Entertainment, a programming venture created to produce original entertainment for television. Wikked operates under its own banner.
Led by Bulochnikov, Wikked is marrying talent with scripted and unscripted formats, expanding on the strategy behind programs created at Ish Entertainment, a company Bulochnikov co-founded.
Bulochnikov's ability to run wild with innovative ideas and develop them around today's top talent was instrumental in Ish's streak of successfu l shows and franchises including MTV’s “Paris Hilton’s My New
BFF,” “Paris Hilton’s my New BFF” (UK), “Paris Hilton’s BFF” (Dubai), “T.I.'s Road to Redemption,” “50
Cent: The Money and the Power,” DJ AM’s “Gone Too Far,” “My Antonio” (VH1) and a “Christmas special starring Larry the Cable Guy” (CMT). Currently, Bulochnikov and Sher executive produce the television show “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle” for VH1.
At Wikked, Bulochnikov continues building new TV franchises around talent and beyond. She is currently focusing on a slate that includes various high profile artists, reality formats, and scripted projects.
In January 2011, Bulochnikov, Kelsey Grammer and Brian Sher (“T.I.’s Road to Redemption”) partnered to run Grammnet NH productions (scripted programing) and launched G3 (alternative programing); together they had a straight to series greenlight order on the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Grammnet NH also recently announced a halfhour comedy pilot for USA Network called “The Dicicco
Brothers.” In the last year Grammnet NH has also put multiple scripted projects in development at broadcast and cable networks such as FOX, TBS and VH1 to name a few. Separately, G3 has recently sold a game show to TNT and has several talent-driven projects in development.

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Prior to co-founding Ish Entertainment in 2007, Bulochnikov helped build the "Celebreality" brand at VH1 as its senior vice president of celebrity talent development. At VH1, Bulochnikov was extremely successful in attracting an eclectic mix of star power to the cable network, including Drew Barrymore, Eva
Longoria, The Wayans Brothers, Mo'Nique, Larry the Cable Guy, Jaime Lee Presley, Salt-N-Pepa and
Brooke Hogan.
Bulochnikov was born in the Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She currently resides in Bel Air,
California with her two daughters Mishka, 9, and Sasha, 6.
BRADFORD WINTERS, Co-Executive Producer & Writer
Bradford Winters is a coexecutive producer and writer of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Winters has been a writer and producer for The Levinson/Fontana Company in New York since its inception in 1997. He worked for six seasons on the acclaimed HBO prison drama “Oz,” during which he was conominated with Tom Fontana for a Writer’s Guild Award for Best Dramatic Episode. Outside the company, Winters has worked o n, among other projects, ABC’s “Six Degrees” and NBC’s “Kings.”
In addition to serving as co-executive producer and writer on “Boss,” Winters is currently in development with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. A published poet and regular blogger for the journal Image, Winters lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
JULIE HÉBERT, Co-Executive Producer & Writer
Julie Hébert is a co-executive producer for the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Previously, Hébert wrote and directed for several hit series, including “ER,” “The West Wing,” “Numb3rs” and “Blue Bloods.” Hébert wrote the feature film Female Perversions which was nominated for the Grand
Jury Prize at Sundance; she also adapted her play “Ruby’s Bucket of Blood” into a film for Showtime starting Angela Bassett.
Hébert is an award-winning playwright and theater director. Most recently her play “TREE” won the PEN
West Award for Drama.
PETER GIULIANO, Producer
Peter Giuliano is the producer of the STARZ Original series “Boss.” His other television producing credits include the series “Law & Order,” “Karen Sisco,” “Birds of Prey,” “Thieves,” and “Bull.”
His most recent feature film credit was as executive producer on Michael Mann's hit suspense thriller Collateral, starring Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jamie Foxx, who earned an
Oscar nomination for his work in the film. Prior to that, Giuliano served as executive producer on the Barry
Levinson films “Sphere,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone; Sleepers, starring Brad Pitt and
Robert De Niro ; Disclosure, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore; and Jimmy Hollywood, with Joe
Pesci and Christian Slater, on which he was also the first assistant director. In addition, Giuliano was the coproducer and first assistant director on Levinson’s Toys , starring Robin Williams, and was Levinson’s first assistant director on Bugsy and Avalon.
Giuliano began his career as an assistant director, working with such notable directors as Ivan
Reitman on Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Legal Eagles, Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 ; Francis
Ford Coppola on Bram Stoker’s Dracula; and Andrew Davis on Above the Law , among others.

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RICHARD RUTKOWSKI, Director of Photography
Richard Rutkowski is the director of photography on STARZ Original series “Boss.” Rutkowski has shot a broad range of projects including films by Neil Burger, Darren Aronofsky, Adrian Lyne, Joel Schumacher,
Wes Craven, and Roman Polanski. In addition to feature films, Rutk owski’s work also includes commercials, series television and gallery installation pieces. His resume features nearly all modern camera formats, from 16mm to HD, 3D and 35mm anamorphic.
Early in his career, outfitted with mini DV cameras and a minimum of crew, Rutk owski’s efforts on the indie feature Homework received acclaim and earned the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Slamdance Film
Festival. At that year's Sundance Festival, Rutkowski's work was represented by Alison Maclean's documentary, Persons of Interest , which chronicled the struggles of men held by the U.S. government without charges after 9/11. In 2003, Rutkowski received a Best Cinematography and a Best First Feature nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards for Neil Burger's Interview with the Assassin which was released by Magnolia Pictures.
Rutkowski has consistently photographed compelling narrative work. In 2010 he completed the pilot and first season of “Lights Out,” a one-hour drama for the FX Network. Starring Holt McCallany, Stacy Keach,
Pablo Schreiber and Catherine McCormack, this series premiered to critical acclaim. In 2009, Rutkowski shot Beware the Gonzo , a feature directed by Brian Goluboff and starring Zoe Kravitz, Ezra Miller,
Campbell Scott and Amy Sedaris, which was released in 2011 by Tribeca Films.
Working over a three-year period with theater director and artist Robert Wilson, Rutkowski recently produced and directed a feature documentary, The Space in Back of You chronicling the influence of
Japanese dancer Suzushi Hanayagi on Wilson and a circle of avant-garde collaborators. This moving and visually intense work has been screened at Lincoln Center, the ZKM Museum Karlsruhe, and The Arts
Arena in Paris, with screenings planned for San Francisco, Tokyo, and Thessaloniki Greece.
A native of Oklahoma, Rutkowski began making films while a student at Harvard College in studies with
Robert Gardner and Ross McElwee.
JIM McKAY, Director - Episode 201
Jim McKay is the director of Episode 201 of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
McKay is a filmmaker and co-founder, along with Michael Stipe, of C-Hundred Film Corp. He co-wrote, directed, and co-produced Girls Town , which was his first feature film. Girls Town received the
Filmmakers Trophy and a Special Jury Prize for Collaboration at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States later that year by October Films.
His second feature as a director was Our Song (1999), which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film
Festival, played at New Directors/New Films in 2000, and was distributed theatrically in the U.S. by IFC
Films. His third feature, Everyday People (2004), was selected as the Opening Night Film of New
Directors/New Films 2004 and played at festivals around the U.S. before showing on HBO. His fourth feature, Angel Rodriguez , co-written with Hannah Weyer, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2005, and then aired on HBO in 2006.
McKay has directed numerous TV shows, including “The Wire,” “Big Love,” “Hung,” “In Treatment,”
“Treme,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “New
Amsterdam ” and “Gossip Girl.”
McKay was a Rockefeller Fellow in 2003 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004.

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JEAN de SEGONZAC, Director – Episodes 202, 205, 208 & 210
Jean de Segonzac is the director of Episodes 202, 205, 208 and 210 of the STARZ Original series
“Boss.”
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, de Segonzac began his cinematic career in documentaries, bringing his discerning eye to celluloid as a cinematographer . Road Scholar , a film he shot and co-directed, premiered at Sundance and earned a Peabody Award in 1993.
De Segonzac’s work as cinematographer on the critically acclaimed independent film Laws of Gravity
(1992, directed by Nick Gomez) garnered him a Spirit Award nomination. Impressed by his work on Laws of Gravity , Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana offered de Segonzac the DP/Operator position on
“Homicide: Life on the Street,” which ultimately led to his becoming a regular director on both that series and on their subsequent series “Oz.” In 1998, he directed the “Law & Order” made-for-TV movie Exiled , starring Chris Noth. The series creator, Dick Wolf, later tapped him for the prestigious assignment of direct ing the premiere episodes of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,”
“Trial by Jury” and “Dragnet.”
In the past 15 years de Segonzac has directed more than 100 prime-time television shows, including
“CSI,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Twilight Zone,” “Life on Mars,” “Gossip Girl,” “Brotherhood,” “In Treatment,”
“Damages” and “Detroit 187.” For his feature film debut, he directed the sci-fi horror-thriller Mimic 2 for
Dimension Films.
LESLI LINKA GLATTER, Director - Episode 203
Lesli Linka Gla tter is the director of Episode 203 of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Linka Glatter won the 2010 DGA Award for direction for “Mad Men” (“A Guy Walks into an Advertising
Agency”) and has directed numerous successful television pilots including that for “Gilmore Girls” and
“Pretty Little Liars.”
She is also a successful episodic director with “True Blood,” “The Good Wife,” “Weeds,” “ER,” “The West
Wing ” and “House” to her credit. Linka Glatter co-executive produced “The Chicago Code” and “The
Playboy Club.
” She has received awards including the CableACE Award (“State Of Emergency”), was nominated for an Emmy ® Award for direction (“Mad Men”), and has directed two features – Now And
Then and The Proposition .
PHIL ABRAHAM, Director - Episode 204
Phil Abraham is the director of Episode 204 of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
Abraham started out as an Emmy ® Award-winning cinematographer on “The Sopranos” and has now become one of the industry’s “go to” directors. His credits include multiple episodes of AMC’s Emmy
Award-winning series “Mad Men,” for which he’s been nominated for a directing Emmy. He’s also directed multiple episodes of FX’s hit series “Sons Of Anarchy” and most recently, “The Killing” (AMC), “Breakout
Kings ” (A&E) and “The Good Wife” (CBS) starring award winner Julianna Margulies. In addition, Phil has directed episodes of “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad,” “Crash,” “White Collar,” “Mercy” and “Criminal
Minds.
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Phil is set to direct a feature thriller entitled Paramour , a character piece based on the true story of one of
Germany’s richest women who was the victim of a con.

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His past work as a feature cinematographer includes Touchstone Pictures’ Annapolis starring James
Franco and Chris Columbus’ I Love You Beth Cooper starring Hayden Panettiere.
Phil lives in New York City with his wife and children.
MARIO VAN PEEBLES, Director – Episodes 206 & 209
Mario Van Peebles returns to the STARZ Original series “Boss , ” Season 2 as the director of Episodes
206 and 209.
His most recent feature was the critically acclaimed, cutting edge, coming of age dramedy, We the Party , which he directed and starred in with Snoop Dogg. In line with Van Peebles' style, it was a family affair, also starring his five children and a cameo appearance by his filmmaker father, Melvin Van Peebles. His other feature credits include All Things Fall Apart, with 50 Cent and Ray Liotta. He also directed
Redemption Road, starring Michael Clarke Duncan and Tom Skerritt.
In addition to the Golden Globe ® nominated “Boss , ” Van Peebles has directorial credits for other awardwinning television shows such as “Damages” and “Lost.”
A graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in Economics and recipient of an honorary doctorate from
Hofstra University, Van Peebles worked for two years for New York’s Department of Environmental
Protection before moving to Hollywood to act, write, and direct.
Van Peebles got his first break acting in Heartbreak Ridge opposite Clint Eastwood. Using money from the role, he funded his first short film. Soon after he was directing episodic TV including his own series,
“ Sonny Spoon, ” for NBC.
His theatrical directing debut was for the urban gangster hit New Jack City, which became Warner Bro s’ most profitable movie of 1991. Van Peebles followed up with his multicultural western, Posse.
In 2001,
Van Peebles received critical acclaim for his portrayal of political icon Malcolm X alongside Will Smith in
Michael Mann’s Ali.
Van Peebles directed and produced Panther, teaming up with his father who also wrote the script.
Panther is the stor y of the Black Panther Party’s rise to power. The film became a political classic, stirring up controversy and winning awards that included the Locarno Film Festival’s Silver Leopard award.
In 2004, Baadasssss!, Van Peebles’ odyssey about the making of his father’s groundbreaking film,
Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, became one of Ebert and Roeper’s ten best movies of the year.
Van Peebles is passionate about supporting education and eco-consciousness through media. With his reality show, “Mario’s Green House,” Mario again teamed up with his children and father. The show chronicled the Van Peebles family’s often-humorous attempts to raise their eco-consciousness as they try to go green in Hollywood. “We never got to the full green, more like olive green," jokes Van Peebles.
With Bring Your "A" Game, Van Peebles encouraged young men to resist the pop culture of antiintellectualism and to educate themselves beyond conventional academics. His documentary, Fair
Game?
explores the idea that the prison industrial complex is a form of modern day slavery and ecoapartheid.

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NELSON MCCORMICK – Director Episode 207
Nelson McCormick is the director of Episode 207 of the STARZ Original series “Boss.”
McCormick began his career as a war photographer, documenting breaking stories worldwide from air to air combat to humanitarian relief.
He has been sought by producers like Steven Spielberg and JJ Abrams to direct award-winning series including: “24,” “ER,” “The West Wing,” “House,” “The Good Wife,” “Alias,” “Prison Break,” “Nip/Tuck,” and
“NYPD Blue.”
McCormick made his feature debut in 2008, opening number one at the box office with the Screen Gems hit Prom Night . He followed that with a re-make of the classic thriller The Stepfather , which the Los
Angeles Times called: “a thoughtfully crafted production that generates mounting terror anchored by assured performances.
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In 2010, McCormick directed the pilot of ABC’s medical mystery “Body Of Proof,” the network’s highest rated new drama of the season.