David Koepp
- Born: 9 Jun, 1963
This young Midwesterner has emerged as one of the most successful screenwriters of mainstream 1990s Hollywood genre movies. Initially interested in acting, Koepp began writing plays as an undergraduate in his native Wisconsin. A viewing of Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) inspired him to segue to screenwriting. Taking the advice of a writing professor, Koepp transferred to UCLA to study film history and screenwriting. While working as a script reader, he impressed the Argentine actor-turned-director Martin Donovan, who asked the then 23-year-old Koepp to collaborate on a project for an Italian producer. The result was "Apartment Zero" (1988), a dark psychodrama about a nervously repressed cinephile who rents a room to a mysterious young charmer suspec...
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FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- grandfather : former mayor of Koepp's hometown
- uncle Claude Akins: born in 1926; died in 1994
- father :
- mother :
- brother Stephen Koepp: senior editor for TIME magazine; collaborated with Koepp writing "The Paper" (1994)
- siblings : has two others; older; Koepp is youngest of four children
- children : has two
- son Benjamin David Koepp: born on February 1, 1994
- wife Rosario Varela:
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