Ryan Murphy is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
His screenwriting career began in the late 1990s when Steven Spielberg purchased his romantic comedy Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?
In 2006, Murphy expanded to the big screen by writing, directing and producing his adaptation of the best-selling book Running with Scissors, starring Annette Bening and Gwyneth Paltrow. The film received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress for Bening.
Murphy is best known as the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning creator, writer, and director of such hit television shows as the FX medical drama Nip/Tuck (2003–10), the Fox musical comedy-drama Glee (2009–15), the FX series American Horror Story (2011–present), American Crime Story (2016–present), Feud (2017), Pose (2018–present), and the Fox procedural drama 9-1-1 (2018–present).
He is also known for directing the 2010 film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, and the 2014 HBO film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
