21st-century American screenwriters

American actor

American film director and producer

American actor and producer

American cartoonist, animator, film director and game designer

American comedian and actor

American film director (1933–2022)

American screenwriter producer (1973—2025)

American television writer and producer (1943–2018)

American film director

American screenwriter, producer, director and actor (1934–2024)

American film director

American political satirist and journalist (1947–2022)

American animator and screenwriter

American film director and screenwriter

American movie director and writer (1944–2024)

American screenwriter and director

American comedian and actress

American director and screenwriter

Rachel Anne Sennott is an American actress, screenwriter and comedian. After training at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, she began her career on the New York City open mic scene, performing regularly on It's a Guy Thing.

American actor (born 1981)

American actress

American screenwriter and director

American film director (born 1974)

American film director and screenwriter (born 1973)

Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers in 2017 until 2022 alongside Michael Che.

American film director, screenwriter, actor (1946-2009)

American comedian, writer, producer and actress

American animation director

American animator and voice actor (born 1980)

British-American screenwriter, film producer and director

American actor (1930–2020)

American animator, writer, voice director, and storyboard artist

American director and producer

American comedian and actor (born 1982)

American writer and film director

American film and television director

American screenwriter (1960–2005)

American actor and screenwriter

Canadian and American television producer, writer, and actor (born 1944)

American actor

Sheridan Taylor Gibler Jr., known professionally as Taylor Sheridan, is an American writer, producer, director, and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the television series Yellowstone and creator of its prequels 1883 (2021) and 1923 (2022).

American actress, singer, and producer

American screenwriter, director and producer

American film director and comedian (born 1968)

American comedian and writer

American filmmaker and actor

American animator (born 1965)

American actress and comedian

American filmmaker (born 1959)

American writer and director

American screenwriter and producer

American actor and comedian

Israeli-American video game designer (born 1978)

Lena Waithe is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–20) and Twenties (2020–21). She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2019) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present).

American filmmaker

American television writer and producer (1922-2023)

American actress and comedian

American screenwriter

American actor and screenwriter

American writer and filmmaker (born 1977)