Council Biography

Eric Roth attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, Columbia University and UCLA. He won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award while attending UCLA. His first produced screenplay was The Nickel Ride in 1975 directed by Robert Mulligan, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Movies Roth has written or co-written include Suspect with Cher and Dennis Quaid; Mr. Jones, directed by Mike Figgis; Forrest Gump, for which he won a Writer's Guild and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford; and The Insider, directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, for which he was nominated for the Writer's Guild and Academy Awards.

Roth is currently writing a screenplay at Disney for Robin Williams, the true story of a man suffering from 24 personalities, and The Good Shepherd at MGM, detailing the first 25 years of the CIA, to be directed by Robert DeNiro.

Roth has six children, and he lives on the ocean. He says he always wanted to be a writer because it meant he didn't have to talk to anybody and he could stay at home.