Paul Attanasio

Paul Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House.

Attanasio was a film critic for The Washington Post from 1984 to 1987. He started writing for television with the CBS sitcom Doctor Doctor and the NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street, which he created. In 1994 he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptation for the drama Quiz Show. He would later write the screenplays for the thriller Disclosure, the gangster movie Donnie Brasco, the science fiction film Sphere, and the political thriller The Sum of All Fears . In 2000 he returned to television and started executive producing in addition to writing the medical drama Gideon's Crossing and the pilot for R.U.S.H.

For 2006 he will write the screenplays for the films The Good German and East of Eden.

He is the brother of Mark Attanasio, owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. He is a graduate of Harvard College where he lived in Currier House, and Harvard Law School. His wife Katie Jacobs is his producing partner.