Joel Surnow

While as a director, producer and writer he’s been behind the development of various projects, Joel Surnow is renowned as the co-creator of the television series 24. He was born on November 29, 1954, in Detroit, USA. While being of Jewish descent, Surnow was raised partly in Michigan and then later in Los Angeles. His educational record includes two years spent at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduation from the UCLA film school in 1976. He began his journey through the entertainment sector by writing for films after graduation. Soon after he had switched to the small screen, he had his breakthrough as an executive story editor for the opening season of Miami Vice in 1984.

Universal Studios, by the end of 1984, had placed Surnow as the Supervising Producer for The Equalizer Click to look into! >> Read More... (1985-1989), which loosely functioned as the source for the 2014 Denzel Washington Born as Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. on December 2 >> Read More... starrer movie of the same name. Surnow also worked as the co-creator and executive producer of the television series La Femme Nikita. It was the best-rated drama for its first two seasons on basic cable. His most successful work to this day remains to be the TV series "24", where he was the co-creator and the executive producer for the show along with Robert Cochran Robert Cochran is the co-creator of the television >> Read More... . Several other TV series boasts of scripts written by him, including The Nowhere Man and Wiseguy. He is a father to five daughters, two with his previous spouse and three with his current wife, Colleen Surnow.