Damon Lindelof

Damon Lindelof is a writer and producer for television and film. His latest projects have included the TV series Lost and the 2009 film Star Trek. He was born Damon Laurence Lindelof on April 24, 1973 in Teaneck, New Jersey.http://www.tv.com/damon-lindelof/person/39812/summary.html He attended New York University before moving to California to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue13/13_culture_lost.html Lindelof began his career in Hollywood as a writer for various television series including Nash Bridges, Wasteland and Undressed. In 2004 he created the television series Lost along with J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber. The show starred Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, Evangeline Lilly, John Holloway, Naveen Andrews and Jorge Garcia.http://abc.go.com/shows/lost/bio/ben-linus/39803# Lindelof is married to Heidi Fugeman, and the couple have one child.http://www.tv.com/damon-lindelof/person/39812/summary.html

In 2009 Lindelof produced the new Star Trek movie directed by J.J. Abrams and starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana and Leonard Nimoy.http://www.startrekmovie.com/ He is currently in pre-production on the untitled next film in the series due out in 2012. He is writing the movie with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/ He is also currently writing Cowboys & Aliens, a Jon Favreau film. The movie, which stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwel, is scheduled for summer 2011 release. http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/events/2010/previs.html

Damon Lindelof began his career in Hollywood in 1996 writing for the TV series Nash Bridges starring Don Johnson and Cheech Marin. Lindelof wrote for two different television shows in 1999, Wasteland and Undressed. In 2002 he became the co-producer on the TV series Crossing Jordan starring Jill Hennessy, Miguel Ferrer and Jerry O'Connell. Two years later he created the series Lost with with J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber. He went on to be the series' headwriter and co-show runner with Carlton Cuse.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/fullcredits#cast He wrote 33 episodes of the series, more than any other writer on the show. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/bio

Lost won nine Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series in 2005. It also won the Best Television Series (Drama) at the Golden Globe Awards in 2006.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/awards That same year Lindelof received the Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic (Drama) from the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America Award for Dramatic TV Series.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/awards In 2006 he created the six-episode Marvel Comics graphic novel Ultimate Wolverine Vs. The Hulk with artist Leinil Yu. http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.54.ultimate_wolverine_vs~dot~_hu

If there’s one word that we keep coming back to, it’s redemption. It is that idea of everybody has something to be redeemed for and the idea that that redemption doesn’t necessarily come from anywhere else other than internally.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/arts/television/16weblost.html

Damon Lindelof

I met with J.J. [Abrams] on a Monday afternoon and we ended up geeking out for four hours, and five days later we had the outline for Lost.http://www.tvguide.com/news/lost-cuse-lindelof-1012875.aspx

Damon Lindelof