Ryan Murphy (writer)

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For the footballer of the same name, see Ryan Murphy (Australian rules footballer).

Ryan Murphy is the creator of the hit FX television series Nip/Tuck, about two upscale 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, Evan Rachel Wood, and, as the young Burroughs, newcomer Joseph Cross.

[edit] Charity Work

Murphy is on the National Advisory Board of the Young Storytellers Foundation.

[edit] External links

• Ryan Murphy at the Internet Movie Database
• MySpace page