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Lawrence Wright
Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn August 2, 1947 (78 years)
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His 2006 history of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other honors. Wright co-wrote the 1998 film “The Siege,” which depicts events eerily similar to those occurring in the U.S. after 9/11. In 2006, his one-man play “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” based on the book, enjoyed a sold-out, six-week run in Soho. Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lawrence Wright Filmography
| 2024 | My Generation (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | God Save Texas (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Kingdom of Silence · as Self |
| 2019 | The Movies (TV Series) · as Self - Playwright, Cleo |
| 2018 | Three Identical Strangers · as Self |
| 2017 | The Nineties (TV Series) · as Self - Author, 'the Looming Tower' |
| 2017 | vDud (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2017 | The Twinning Reaction · as Self |
| 2016 | Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2015 | The Seventies (2015) (TV Series) · as Self - Author, 'going Clear' |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Sixties (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 2012 | CBS Saturday Morning (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 2010 | Overheard (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | My Trip to Al-Qaeda · as Himself |
| 2009 | Hannity (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self - Author, 'the Looming Tower' |
| 2005 | This Week (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2002 | Last Call with Carson Daly (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1996 | Fox News Sunday (TV Series) · as Self - Power Player Of The Week |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1975 | PBS News (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1953 | Panorama (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
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| 2000 | |
| 1998 | The Siege · as Screenplay |
| 1996 |
| 2024 | God Save Texas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Kingdom of Silence · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | |
| 2000 | Noriega: God's Favorite · as Co-Producer |
| 2018 | The Looming Tower (TV Series) · as Story |
| 2015 | The New Yorker Presents (TV Series) · as Based On The Article By |
| 2010 | My Trip to Al-Qaeda · as Based On The Play By |