Gay screenwriters

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)

Spanish filmmaker (born 1949)

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Italian director (1906–1976)

American actor (born 1973)

Sir Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco (1983–1984) and the sitcom Blackadder (1986–1989), before gaining recognition as part of the comedy duo Fry and Laurie alongside Hugh Laurie, appearing together in A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993). His later television roles include Kingdom (2007–2009), Bones (2007–2017), and It's a Sin (2021). Fry was the original host of the comedy panel show QI (2003–2016), for which he was nominated for six British Academy Television Awards. In 2006, the British public ranked Fry number 9 in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.

German filmmaker (born 1955)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer (1899–1973)

Canadian filmmaker (born 1989)

American director, screenwriter, and producer (1939–2020)

English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952)

English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)

French film director and screenwriter (born 1967)

American novelist (b. 1964)

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, a Tony Award, and a Guinness World Records title. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's mo

Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer

Italian filmmaker (born 1971)

Ryan Patrick Murphy is an American writer, director, and producer, working mainly in television. He has often been described as "the most powerful man" in modern television and signed the largest development deal in television history with Netflix. Murphy is noted for having created a shift in inclusive storytelling that "brought marginalised characters to the masses." His accolades include six Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, a Tony Award, four Producers Guild of America Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including the honorary Carol Burnett Award.

Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer (born 1961)

American actor and playwright

American film director and screenwriter (born 1961)

British actor, comedian and screenwriter

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)

French actor and director (1933-2007)

Thai film director, screenwriter, and film producer (born 1970)

American screenwriter

English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1934)

American screenwriter, director, and producer (born 1965)

Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1959)

British film director and artist (1942-1994)

American filmmaker (1927–2023)

Belgian director and screenwriter

Welsh screenwriter and television producer

Israeli film director

Colombian writer

British playwright, screenwriter (1911-1977)

American television writer and producer

American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director

American comedian and actor

Canadian film director and screenwriter

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1961)

American playwright (1938–2020)

Bowen Yang is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer. Yang was a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2018, and a cast member for seven seasons from 2019 until his departure in 2025. He became the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021, the same year he was promoted to repertory status.

Film director, screenwriter

Canadian actor

American film director and screenwriter

American actor and novelist (1926–1991)

Venezuelan-born Spanish writer

German actor (1926–1990)

Canadian-American professional wrestler

Japanese film director (1912-1998)

American actor, filmmaker and singer

British film director and screenwriter (1945–2023)

American film director

Canadian theater director, film director, actor, screenwriter and film producer (born 1957)

Alan Graham Carr is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer, and television personality. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became known for co-hosting the comedy variety show The Friday Night Project (2006–2009) with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008), and he went on to host the comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009–2016).

Belgian poet and playwright (born 1958)

Nicaraguan-American playwright, screenwriter, comic book writer and showrunner

American actor