Vince Gilligan
Vince Gilligan
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The X-Files
Vince Gilligan is the co-showrunner/executive producer/writer/director of AMC's BETTER CALL SAUL starring Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and Michael McKean. This new drama series is a BREAKING BAD spin-off. Vince is also the co-creator and executive producer of CBS's new police drama series BATTLE CREEK starring Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters.
He was born in Richmond, Va., and raised in Farmville and Chesterfield County. He received the Virginia Governor's Screenwriting Award in 1989 for his screenplay HOME FRIES, which was later turned into a film starring Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson.
As a writer and executive producer on THE X-FILES, Gilligan shared Golden Globe Awards in 1996 and 1997 for Best Drama Series. His other credits include the Fox Television series THE LONE GUNMEN, which he co-created, and the features HANCOCK, starring Will Smith and Charlize Theron, and WILDER NAPALM, starring Debra Winger and Dennis Quaid.
After writing and directing the BREAKING BAD pilot, Gilligan received the 2009 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Drama. The series went on to win five more WGA Awards, including three for Drama Series (2012-2014) and two for Episodic Drama (2012, 2014). Over five seasons, BREAKING BAD garnered 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 2013 and 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, and 53 nominations, including three nominations for Gilligan for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.
The series also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Series (2014), two Peabody Awards (2009, 2014) and a Producers Guild Award for Episodic Drama (2014). The series was named one of the "Top 10 Programs of the Year" by the American Film Institute (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), and hailed in 2009 as "the best of the 21st century" by Stephen King.
Gilligan currently lives in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Holly.
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