Matt Manfredi is an American
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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Early life and education
Manfredi is from
Palos Verdes
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, California,
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retrieved September 9, 2012 the son of Nancy and George Manfredi.
November 21, 2004 His mother is a human resource manager for the
Torrance, California
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city government and his father was a private lawyer in Los Angeles. He graduated from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and also has a master's degree in screenwriting from the
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees.
Leade ...
in Los Angeles.
While in college he joined an
improv comedy
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group where he met his future writing partner
Phil Hay. He is of
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
descent.
Filmography
All of his film screenwriting work has been with writing partner
Phil Hay. Their technique for joint screenwriting is to each write separate scenes and then trade them to each other for further rewrites.
Personal life
As a widower in 2004, he married his second wife Casey Greenfield, daughter of news correspondent and author
Jeff Greenfield
Jeffrey Greenfield (born June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist and author.
Early life
He was born in New York City, to Benjamin and Helen Greenfield. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated in 1960 from the Bronx High School of Sci ...
.
They divorced less than a year later.
[New York Daily News: "CNN legal eagle Jeffrey Toobin in baby mama drama - with daughter of CBS News' Jeff Greenfield" BY GEORGE RUSH]
February 18, 2010 He has since remarried and has one daughter and one son.
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20th-century births
21st-century American screenwriters
American male screenwriters
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Palos Verdes, California
Year of birth missing (living people)
Screenwriters from California
Brown University alumni
AFI Conservatory alumni
American writers of Italian descent
21st-century American male writers