Sam Esmail
Directing
- Born
- September 17, 1977 (age 49) · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Sam Esmail (born September 17, 1977) is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter who runs Esmail Corp. He is best known as the creator, writer, and director of the award-winning USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), starring Rami Malek. He wrote and directed the feature films Comet (2014) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He produced and directed the first season of the acclaimed Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller Homecoming (2018–2020), starring Julia Roberts and Janelle Monáe, and produced USA's Briarpatch (2020), Starz's Gaslit (2022), and Peacock's Angelyne (2022) and The Resort (2022).
Esmail's work often centres on alienation, technology, and American society.
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Known for
Behind the camera13
- 2027The Hole Producer
- 2027Panic Carefully Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 2023Leave the World Behind Screenplay, Producer, Director
- 2017Risk Executive Producer
- 2016The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie Executive Producer, Writer
- 2014Comet Director, Writer
- 2014Mockingbird Story
- 2006Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy Editor
- 2004Deep Down in Florida Director
- 2002
