Christopher McQuarrie
Writer, Producer, Actor, Director
October 25, 1968 (57 years)
Christopher McQuarrie (born October 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000).
McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four instalments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025). He was also a part of the writing and/or producing team on the Cruise films Valkyrie (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the last of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four instalments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025). He was also a part of the writing and/or producing team on the Cruise films Valkyrie (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the last of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.
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Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick · as Screenplay |
| 2018 | |
| 2017 | The Mummy · as Screenplay |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow · as Screenplay |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer · as Screenplay |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher · as Screenplay |
| 2010 | The Tourist · as Screenplay |
| 2010 | |
| 2008 | Valkyrie · as Screenplay |
| 2000 | The Way of the Gun · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1995 | |
| 1993 |
| 2025 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Reacher · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2010 | Persons Unknown · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 |
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning · as Passer-By (uncredited) |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning · as Passenger On Train (uncredited) |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible - Fallout · as Mission Brief (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects · as Interrogation Cop (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Public Access · as Cop #1 / Our Town Caller |
| 2023 | Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Tom Cruise: Mission Possible · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings · as Self |
| 2011 | On Story · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Kevin Pollak's Chat Show · as Self |
| 2008 | Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler · as Self |
| 2006 | NerdOffice · as Self |
| 2006 | Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light · as Self |
| 2005 | Made In Hollywood · as Self |
| 2002 | Round Up: Deposing 'the Usual Suspects' · as Self |
| 1996 | The 68th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1994 | WGN Morning News · as Self - At 'mission: Impossible - Fallout' Premiere |
| 1994 | Extra · as Self |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self |
| 1981 | Entertainment Tonight · as Self |
| 1958 | Etter Dagsrevyen · as Self - Interviewee (segment "mission: Impossible - Fallout") |
| 1953 | The Academy Awards · as Self |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · as Story |
| 1997 | The Underworld · as Story |
| 1993 | NYPD Blue · as Story By |