Zack Estrin | |
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Born | September 16, 1971 Woodland, California, U.S. |
Died | (aged 51) Hermosa Beach, California, U.S. |
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Education | University of Southern California |
Spouse | Kari |
Children | 2 |
Zack Estrin (September 16, 1971 – September 23, 2022) was an American television producer and screenwriter.
Estrin began his career as a writer and producer on Charmed, Dawson's Creek, and Tru Calling, before serving as a co-executive producer of Prison Break. [1] [2] He was set to write the script of an ultimately unproduced spin-off, Prison Break: Cherry Hill, along with Prison Break's executive producer Matt Olmstead, both of whom conceived the idea for the spin-off with fellow executive producer, Dawn Parouse. [3] He was also a producer on the film Stranger than Fiction. [1]
From 2018 to 2021, he served as showrunner on the Netflix show Lost in Space. [4]
Estrin was born in Woodland, California, and raised in Brooklyn, New York. [1] His father, Jonathan, was also a screenwriter. [5]
Estrin attended the University of Southern California. [2] He and his wife, Kari, had two daughters. [1]
On September 23, 2022, Estrin died while jogging in Hermosa Beach, California, after apparently going into cardiac arrest. He was 51, and was not known to be ill. [6]