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Mike White
Summary
Michael Christopher "Mike" White is an American writer, director, actor, and producer for television and film and the winner of the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for Chuck & Buck.
Biography
early years
White was born in Pasadena, California. White attended Polytechnic School and Wesleyan University. White's father is the Reverend Dr. Mel White, a former speechwriter and ghostwriter for Religious Right figures such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. White is openly bisexual. His father came out as gay in 1994.career
White was a writer and producer on Dawson's Creek and Freaks and Geeks and wrote and acted in the films Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Orange County, School of Rock and Nacho Libre. He also had a role in the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, and the 2008 film Smother. Chuck and Buck was named the best film of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly. In an interview with The New York Times, Jeff Bridges called White's performance in Chuck and Buck "the performance of the decade".He frequently collaborates with actor–writer Jack Black on films. Together they formed the production company Black and White, which closed in 2006. White is not a fan of classic rock, but he wrote School of Rock specifically so Black could perform his own favorite rock music.
White made his directorial debut with the self-penned Year of the Dog at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. White is a vegan animal rights supporter and received an award from animal rights group PETA for Year of the Dog, which was also the third screenplay of White's to be nominated for Best Screenplay at the Independent Film Awards.
He was a member of the US Dramatic Jury at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
He appeared on the fourteenth season of The Amazing Race along with his father Mel.
They lasted for seven legs before being eliminated in sixth place in Phuket, Thailand. Mel and Mike returned to compete in The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, where they finished in tenth place.
Laura Dern brought White into a project with HBO which became the series Enlightened that premiered on October 10, 2011. White himself had suffered an on-the-job meltdown while running an earlier television series and incorporated elements of that experience into the new series' plot. Dern's character Amy Jellicoe goes to a Hawaiian retreat after her meltdown and is introduced to meditation, echoing to a degree White's own exploration of Buddhist meditation, and the character Jellicoe tries to continue the discipline as she resumes her working life. White wrote the pilot and all the episodes in the first season.
- 2009
- 2004
- 2003
- 2002
- 2000
- Unknown
Movie
- Directing
Year of the Dog
Director
2007- Writing
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Writer
2009Nacho Libre
Writer
2006School of Rock
Writer
2003Orange County
Writer
2002The Good Girl
Writer
2002Chuck & Buck
Writer
2000Dead Man on Campus
Screenplay
1998- Production
Gentlemen Broncos
Producer
2009Nacho Libre
Producer
2006
TV show
- Creation
Enlightened
Creator
2011Pasadena
Creator
2001- Pre-production
Pasadena
Executive producer
2001Freaks and Geeks
Executive producer
1999
TV show season
- Creation
Enlightened (season 1)
Creator
2011- Pre-production
Freaks and Geeks (season 1)
Executive producer
1999
TV show episode
- Directing
Pilot
Director
2011- Writing
Kim Kelly Is My Friend
Screenwriter
2000Sex, She Wrote
Screenwriter
1999Uncharted Waters
Screenwriter
1999A Perfect Wedding
Screenwriter
1999Abby Morgan, Rest In Peace
Screenwriter
1999
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