Noah Hawley


Noah Hawley is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo and Legion. Hawley earlier worked on the television series Bones, The Unusuals, and My Generation.

Early life

Hawley was born and raised in New York City, New York. His mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright. His father, Tom Hawley, was a businessman. He has a twin brother, Alexi, who is a writer for the television show The Following and the creator of State of Affairs.
Hawley graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in political science in 1989. He worked for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, dealing with cases involving child abuse and neglect. He later moved to San Francisco. He worked in computer programming at law firms and as a paralegal.

Career

Books

He has published five novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People's Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, and Before the Fall.

Television

Hawley was a writer and producer on the first three seasons of the television series Bones. He was also creator and executive producer of The Unusuals and My Generation.
Hawley is the creator, primary writer, and executive producer of the FX anthology television series Fargo, based on the Coen brothers' 1996 film of the same name. On August 25, 2014, Fargo won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries, along with 17 additional nominations at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. In total, the series has been nominated for 113 awards since its premiere, winning 32 of them. The third season of Fargo premiered on April 19, 2017.
In December 2015, Hawley extended his production deal with FX. He wrote and served as executive producer for Legion, an FX television series based on the Marvel comic book character. Hawley will also write and executive produce a limited series adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle for FX. He will executive produce, but not write for, two additional adaptations for FX: Hellhound on His Trail, based on the book of the same name, and The Hot Rock, also based on a book.

Film

Hawley wrote the original screenplay for the film The Alibi.
In September 2014, it was announced that Hawley had signed a deal with Universal Pictures to script an untitled project for their upcoming Dark Universe. Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to Hawley's latest novel, Before the Fall, with him writing the screenplay. On July 20, 2017, Hawley announced at Comic Con that he is writing and directing a Doctor Doom movie with 20th Century Fox.
In 2019, he made his feature film directorial debut with Lucy in the Sky, a drama film starring Natalie Portman as an astronaut, for Fox Searchlight. He has also been set to direct Man Alive, from a sci-fi spec script by first-time screenwriter Joe Greenberg.
In November 2019, it was announced that Hawley would be writing and directing the fourth installment in the rebooted Star Trek franchise.

Personal life

Hawley resides in Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Kyle Hawley, and their two children. He was previously married to Beth Weintraub.

Filmography

Television

Film

Published works

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2014Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Limited SeriesFargo
2014Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialFargo
2014Critics' Choice Television AwardBest MiniseriesFargo
2014Producers Guild of America AwardBest Long-Form TelevisionFargo
2014Golden Globe AwardBest MiniseriesFargo
2015Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Limited SeriesFargo
2015Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialFargo
2015Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialFargo
2015Critics' Choice Television AwardBest MiniseriesFargo
2015Producers Guild of America AwardBest Long-Form TelevisionFargo
2015Golden Globe AwardBest MiniseriesFargo
2015Writers Guild of America AwardFargo
2017Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Limited SeriesFargo
2017Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialFargo
2017Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic SpecialFargo
2017Writers Guild of America AwardFargo