Matthew Weiner

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Matthew Hoffman Weiner (; born June 29, 1965) is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series ''Mad Men'', and as a writer and executive producer on ''The Sopranos''.

Weiner began his television career as a writer on ''Becker'' and worked on several other sitcoms before writing the pilot episode of ''Mad Men'' as a spec script and joining the writing staff of ''The Sopranos'' in 2004. After achieving success on both ''The Sopranos'' and ''Mad Men'', he wrote, directed, and produced the comedy-drama film ''Are You Here'' in 2013, published his first novel ''Heather, the Totality'' in 2017, and created the anthology drama series ''The Romanoffs'' in 2018.

Weiner has won nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two for ''The Sopranos'' and seven for ''Mad Men'', as well as three Golden Globe Awards for ''Mad Men''. ''Mad Men'' won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for four consecutive years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011); ''The Sopranos'' (with Weiner as an executive producer) won the same award twice, in 2004 and 2007. In 2011, Weiner was included in ''Time'' annual ''Time 100'' as one of the "Most Influential People in the World". In November 2011, ''The Atlantic'' named him one of 21 "Brave Thinkers."