Ryan Murphy (writer)

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Ryan Murphy is the creator of the hit FX television series Nip/Tuck, about two upscale Miami plastic surgeons with complex and sometimes twisted personal lives, played by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon.

Murphy also created the WB network series Popular, a satirical comedy about high school students, which aired from 1999-2001.

Murphy is a graduate of Warren Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana. He also attended Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. While at Indiana University, he was a staff member of the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student.

Murphy wrote the screenplay for and directed the feature film Running with Scissors. Based on the harrowing but oddly uplifting best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs, the movie version stars Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Evan Rachel Wood, and, as the young Burroughs, newcomer Joseph Cross.

Murphy's name has also been associated with several other potential big screen projects as Dirty Tricks. From the play by John Jeter, the post-Watergate scandal era film drama has been mentioned for Meryl Streep, who would play the wife of fallen U.S. President Richard Nixon's attorney general. Other potential cast members include Jim Broadbent (as Nixon), Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sharon Stone.