![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Screen Story, Teleplay By Biography:Widely praised for his incisive screenplay for "Traffic", director "Steven Soderbergh"'s epic study in across-the-border drug smuggling, writer, director and recovering drug addict "Stephen Gaghan" drew from many personal experiences for his rich and complex story line. Often citing his addiction to and use of crack on various powerful studio lots, Gaghan may be comfortable discussing his past troubles now, though the thought of unemployment due to the discovery of his addiction weighed as a heavy shadow over his impending success. After earning a Best Adapted Writing Oscar for his smart and complex screenplay, it seems unlikely that Gaghan will have trouble finding work anytime soon.
Beginning his career as a writer by penning scripts for such legally oriented television series as "NYPD Blue" (for which he won an Emmy) and "The Practice", Gaghan also scripted episodes of former Hardy Boy "Shaun... Full Biography
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