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Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright. Born in New York City, Sorkin developed a passion for writing at an early age. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men, The Farnsworth Invention and To Kill a Mockingbird; the television series Sports Night (1998–2000), The West Wing (1999–2006), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), and The Newsroom (2012–14).


Aliases
  • Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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Director

Movie Molly's Game 2017
Movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Movie Being the Ricardos 2021

Writer

Movie The Social Network 2010
Movie Moneyball 2011
Movie A Few Good Men 1992
Movie Molly's Game 2017
Movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Movie Being the Ricardos 2021
Movie Steve Jobs 2015
Movie The Rock 1996
Movie Enemy of the State 1998
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
One Step Too Many
2013
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Red Team III
2013
Episode Sports Night
Celebrities
2000
Episode The West Wing
Inauguration (1)
2003
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Election Night (1)
2013
Episode The West Wing
Isaac and Ishmael
2001
Episode The West Wing
Election Night
2002
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Election Night (2)
2013
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Boston
2014
Episode The West Wing
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (2)
2000
Episode Sports Night
Dana and the Deep Blue Sea
1999
Episode Sports Night
Kyle Whitaker's Got Two Sacks
1999
Episode The West Wing
Noël
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Run
2014
Episode The West Wing
Take Out the Trash Day
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Main Justice
2014
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Contempt
2014
Episode Sports Night
The Quality of Mercy at 29K
1998
Episode Sports Night
The Local Weather
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Oh Shenandoah
2014
Episode The West Wing
H. Con-172
2002
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
What Kind of Day Has It Been
2014
Episode The West Wing
The Stackhouse Filibuster
2001
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
B-12
2006
Episode The West Wing
100,000 Airplanes
2002
Episode Sports Night
Sally
1999
Episode The West Wing
20 Hours in America
2002
Episode The West Wing
Let Bartlet Be Bartlet
2000
Episode The West Wing
Take This Sabbath Day
2000
Episode The West Wing
On the Day Before
2001
Episode Sports Night
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
1999
Episode The West Wing
20 Hours in America (2)
2002
Episode Sports Night
Pilot
1998
Episode Sports Night
Shoe Money Tonight
1998
Episode The West Wing
The Two Bartlets
2002
Episode Sports Night
The Reunion
1999
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The Cold Open
2006
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
We Just Decided To
2012
Episode The West Wing
The Leadership Breakfast
2001
Episode The West Wing
The Midterms
2000
Episode Sports Night
The Sword of Orion
1999
Episode The West Wing
Life on Mars
2003
Episode Sports Night
Draft Day: Part I - It Can't Rain at Indian Wells
2000
Episode The West Wing
A Proportional Response
1999
Episode The West Wing
Night Five
2002
Episode The West Wing
Process Stories
2002
Episode The West Wing
Celestial Navigation
2000
Episode Sports Night
The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee
1998
Episode The West Wing
Hartsfield's Landing
2002
Episode The West Wing
College Kids
2002
Episode The West Wing
Privateers
2003
Episode Sports Night
Eli's Coming
1999
Episode The West Wing
Inauguration (2): Over There
2003
Episode The West Wing
17 People
2001
Episode Sports Night
Draft Day: Part II - The Fall of Ryan O'Brian
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
News Night 2.0
2012
Episode The West Wing
Bad Moon Rising
2001
Episode Sports Night
Ordnance Tactics
1999
Episode The West Wing
Two Cathedrals
2001
Episode The West Wing
Mandatory Minimums
2000
Episode The West Wing
Dead Irish Writers
2002
Episode The West Wing
Five Votes Down
1999
Episode The West Wing
The Drop In
2001
Episode Sports Night
The Apology
1998
Episode The West Wing
The U.S. Poet Laureate
2002
Episode The West Wing
The Red Mass
2002
Episode The West Wing
War Crimes
2001
Episode The West Wing
In This White House
2000
Movie Malice 1993
Episode Sports Night
The Giants Win the Pennant, the Giants Win the Pennant
2000
Episode The West Wing
20 Hours in L.A.
2000
Episode Sports Night
Ten Wickets
1999
Episode The West Wing
Stirred
2002
Episode Sports Night
Napoleon's Battle Plan
1999
Episode The West Wing
The California 47th
2003
Episode The West Wing
The Crackpots and These Women
1999
Episode The West Wing
Pilot
1999
Episode The West Wing
Bartlet's Third State of the Union
2001
Episode The West Wing
Debate Camp
2002
Episode The West Wing
Gone Quiet
2001
Episode The West Wing
Arctic Radar
2002
Episode Sports Night
What Kind of Day Has it Been
1999
Episode Sports Night
The Hungry and the Hunted
1998
Episode The West Wing
Enemies Foreign and Domestic
2002
Episode The West Wing
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
The 112th Congress
2012
Movie Charlie Wilson's War 2007
Episode The West Wing
Mr. Willis of Ohio
1999
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Nevada Day (1)
2006
Episode Sports Night
Smoky
1999
Episode Sports Night
The Cut Man Cometh
2000
Episode The West Wing
Holy Night
2002
Episode Sports Night
Special Powers
1999
Episode Sports Night
Intellectual Property
1998
Episode The West Wing
The Fall's Gonna Kill You
2001
Episode The West Wing
Commencement
2003
Episode The West Wing
The Black Vera Wang
2002
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The Focus Group
2006
Episode The West Wing
And It's Surely to Their Credit
2000
Episode The West Wing
The State Dinner
1999
Episode Sports Night
When Something Wicked This Way Comes
1999
Episode The West Wing
Manchester (1)
2001
Episode The West Wing
The Indians in the Lobby
2001
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
I'll Try to Fix You
2012
Episode Sports Night
Cliff Gardner
1999
Episode Sports Night
Small Town
1999
Episode The West Wing
Game On
2002
Episode Sports Night
Bells And A Siren
2000
Episode The West Wing
The War at Home
2001
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Amen
2012
Episode The West Wing
We Killed Yamamoto
2002
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Bullies
2012
Episode The West Wing
Guns Not Butter
2003
Episode The West Wing
Angel Maintenance
2003
Movie Excess Baggage 1997
Episode The West Wing
What Kind of Day Has It Been
2000
Episode The West Wing
The White House Pro-Am
2000
Episode Sports Night
Mary Pat Shelby
1998
Episode The West Wing
The Lame Duck Congress
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
5/1
2012
Episode Sports Night
La Forza Del Destino
2000
Episode Sports Night
Louise Revisited
1999
Episode Sports Night
The Sweet Smell of Air
2000
Episode The West Wing
The Short List
1999
Episode The West Wing
Posse Comitatus
2002
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
The Blackout Part I: Tragedy Porn
2012
Movie The American President 1995
Episode The West Wing
The Portland Trip
2000
Episode The West Wing
The Women of Qumar
2001
Episode The West Wing
In Excelsis Deo
1999
Episode The West Wing
Ellie
2001
Episode The West Wing
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (1)
2000
Episode The West Wing
Red Haven's on Fire
2003
Episode The West Wing
Manchester (2)
2001
Episode The West Wing
Twenty Five
2003
Episode The West Wing
18th and Potomac
2001
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate
2012
Episode The West Wing
Lord John Marbury
2000
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The West Coast Delay
2006
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Nevada Day (2)
2006
Episode The West Wing
Shibboleth
2000
Episode Sports Night
The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail
1998
Episode Sports Night
Rebecca
1999
Episode Sports Night
Quo Vadimus
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
The Greater Fool
2012
Episode The West Wing
Ways and Means
2001
Episode The West Wing
Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail
2001
Episode Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Pilot
2006
Episode Sports Night
Dear Louise
1998
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
2013
Episode Sports Night
And the Crowd Goes Wild
2000
Episode The West Wing
Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
1999
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
The Genoa Tip
2013
Episode The West Wing
Evidence of Things Not Seen
2003
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Willie Pete
2013
Episode The West Wing
Bartlet for America
2001
Episode The West Wing
Galileo
2000
Episode The West Wing
20 Hours in America (1)
2002
Episode The West Wing
He Shall, from Time to Time...
2000
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
Unintended Consequences
2013
Episode The Newsroom (2012)
News Night with Will McAvoy
2013
Episode Sports Night
Thespis
1998
Episode The West Wing
Six Meetings Before Lunch
2000

Creator

Series The Newsroom (2012) 2012
Series The West Wing 1999
Series Sports Night 1998

Guest Star

Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Writers
2021
Episode Entourage
Bottoms Up
2010
Episode The Daily Show
Aaron Sorkin
2013
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Aaron Sorkin, The Shins
2020
Episode The Big Interview
Aaron Sorkin
2013
Episode Today
October 6, 2015
2015
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mahershala Ali, Aaron Sorkin, Julia Michaels & Niall Horan
2019
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Aaron Sorkin, Bradley Whitford
2015
Episode Rock Center with Brian Williams
June 21, 2012
2012
Episode Vanity Fair: Notes On a Scene
Sacha Baron Cohen Breaks Down 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' with Aaron Sorkin
2021
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Aaron Sorkin, Cheryl Hines, Scott Speedman
2016
Episode The Daily Show
Aaron Sorkin
2015
Episode Today
November 13, 2014
2014
Episode MTV After Hours
Mark Wahlberg, Dave Franco, Ansel Elgort & More Spoil Your Favorite Movies
2017
Episode Entourage
The Sorkin Notes
2009
Episode The Colbert Report
Aaron Sorkin
2012
Episode Sports Night
Small Town
1999
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin, Rachel Platten
2018
Episode The Talk
Jeff Daniels & Aaron Sorkin
2015
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Writers
2015