Mitchell Burgess is an American writer and producer. He was the writer and an executive producer on ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...

''. He was a creator and executive producer for '' Blue Bloods''. He frequently works with his wife

Robin Green Robin Green is an American writer and producer. She was an executive producer on the HBO series ''The Sopranos''. She was a creator and executive producer for '' Blue Bloods''. Biography A Rhode Island native, Robin Green earned a Bachelor of ...

Career

''The Sopranos'', ''

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'' and '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' are some of the TV series that he has written for. In 2010 Burgess worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of the police drama ''

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''. Green and Burgess were the creators of ''Blue Bloods'', which premiered in fall 2010 on

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Personal life

Burgess is married to his ''Sopranos'' co-writer

, whom he met when they were students at the

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Awards

He has been nominated for eleven

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for ''The Sopranos'' and has won three.

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