OverviewAI-generated
Alan Ball is a male artist from the United Kingdom who began his work period in 1994. His musical style is categorized as classic pop and rock. He has a presence on Last.fm, where he has 156 listeners and a playcount of 714.
In literature, he is listed as an author with 34 works. Notable titles include *It's All About a Ball*, *African-American Biographies*, *Saigon Sunset*, and *Peppa Pig: Me Reader Jr*. He is also recognized in the Academy Award Best Original Screenplay collection. Crossref lists five works associated with him, and he is referenced by 589 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- Alan Erwin Ball , ( 1957-05-13 ) May 13, 1957 (age 69) , Marietta, Georgia , U.S.
- Education
- University of Georgia Florida State University
- Occupations
- Screenwriter, director, producer
- Known for
- Screenwriter of American Beauty
- Television
- Six Feet Under , True Blood , Banshee
- Partner
- Peter Macdissi
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , American Beauty (1999)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Erwin
- Family name
- Ball
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- showrunner
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Notable work
- True Blood
- Image
- BALL Allan-24x30-2008b.jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Alan Ball
- date of birth
- 1957-05-13
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- unmarried partner
- Peter Macdissi
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- different from
- Alan Ball
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Encyclopedic overview
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball is best known for writing the screenplay for the dramedy film American Beauty (1999), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony. He also created the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005) and True Blood (2008–2014), and served as an executive producer on the Cinemax action drama series Banshee (2013–2016). He wrote and directed the films Towelhead (2007) and Uncle Frank (2020).
Early life
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