Cyrus Nowrasteh Net Worth is
$800,000

Mini Biography

Of Iranian descent, he was created in Boulder, Colorado, and was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from Madison Western SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and was a town boys senior high school rugby champion. Nowrasteh went to New Mexico Condition University with an athletic scholarship or grant and later used in the University or college of Southern California to wait the institution of Cinematic Arts. He’s wedded to wife Elizabeth G. Nowrasteh generally known as “Betsy.” Nowrasteh’s oldest child, Alex Nowrasteh, can be an immigration plan analyst working in the Cato Institute. Nowrasteh’s more youthful child, Mark Nowrasteh, analyzed in the UCLA Playwriting system. Mark’s 1st play The Emperor & The Apostle could have its theatrical debut in Austin, Tx in Fall, 2013. Tag in addition has been employed by Rise Entertainment to create his 1st screenplay for any film, for delivery in early 2014. Nowrasteh began his profession writing around the CBS tv series, The Equalizer. He continued to focus on additional series (Falconcrest, D.E.A.), and wrote the pilot for the united states Network display La Femme Nikita (1996). He also done independent films like the American/Brazilian creation The Interview (1997, article writer/co-producer), which performed at Sundance and on the Showtime network; and Norma Jean, Jack port and Me (1998), a film that had not been theatrically released but performed the event circuit and shown on HDNet. In 2001 he published and aimed the highly-rated, award-winning Showtime demonstration YOUR DAY Reagan Was Shot, which starred Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and was professional made by Oliver Rock. The following season he had written 10,000 Dark Men Called George, the storyplot from the Pullman hit from the 1930s, for Showtime. For both from the above movies Nowrasteh received the Pencil USA West Literary Award for Best Teleplay-the only writer in the annals of the Pencil awards to win 2 yrs within a row in the same category. YOUR DAY Reagan Was Shot also received the Eddie Prize as well as the Golden Satellite television Award for Greatest FILM for Tv, 2001, and a SAG nomination for Greatest Professional (Richard Dreyfuss). Nowrasteh also had written the “Express Destiny” bout of the respectable (16 Emmy nominations) Steven Spielberg and TNT miniseries display, Into the Western world. Pursuing that Nowrasteh composed and created the questionable ABC miniseries THE ROAD to 9/11. Then continued to co-write (along with his wife, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh), and immediate the film The Stoning of Soraya M., released in ’09 2009 by Lionsgate Movies. Nowrasteh was attacked simply by Conservatives for an alleged “liberal bias” in his Showtime film, YOUR DAY Reagan Was Shot. Previous Reagan National Protection Consultant, Richard Allen, led the charge with a bit in the Wall structure Road Journal (Dec 14, 2001), accusing Nowrasteh and Professional Producer Oliver Rock of “another dubious Oliver Rock creation” and discussing it as “YOUR DAY They Shot the reality.” Mr. Allen centered his piece on tapes he previously held from that day time, releasing just six minutes to aid his placement. Nowrasteh responded in the LA Times (Dec 24, 2001) and a notice towards the editor in the Wall structure Road Journal (January 2, 2002), “the obvious solution is definitely to possess Allen release the complete unedited tape and invite one to make the evaluations and attract whatever conclusions appear warranted.” Nowrasteh concluded his LA Instances piece by composing, “YOUR DAY Reagan Was Shot supplies the first-ever dramatization of the constitutional problems and government hide (both amply backed by details) as well as the danger they present to a country when a chief executive becomes incapacitated. That is essential and relevant and increases issues that ought to be talked about openly.” Nowrasteh was attacked simply by Liberals for an alleged “conservative bias” in his controversial ABC docudrama THE ROAD to 9/11, which he wrote and co-produced. Nowrasteh represents himself as even more libertarian than conventional or liberal. The Stoning of Soraya M. was condemned and prohibited with the Iranian federal government but a large number of copies had been bootlegged in to the nation and it became an underground strike in Iran – forcing the federal government to place a brief moratorium on stoning being a punishment, especially in the Sakineh Ashtiani case. The Stoning of Soraya M. acquired its globe premiere at this year’s 2009 Toronto International Film Celebration, where it gained Runner-up for the Market Choice Award. In addition, it gained Second Runner-up for the Cadillac People’s Choice Prize, aswell as the Market Award for Greatest Feature at this year’s 2009 LA Film Celebration. The film also gained the Heartland Truly Shifting Picture Prize, and this year’s 2009 Ghent Film Festival’s Canvas Market Award. At this year’s 2009 Satellite Honours, it was called among the year’s TOP Movies and nominated for Greatest Dilemma Film, while its superstar Shohreh Agdashloo gained Best Actress within a Drama. This year 2010, the film was hailed as you of Movieguide’s Ten Greatest 2009 Films for Mature Viewers and was the co-winner, with Invictus (film), of Movieguide’s Trust and Independence Award for Promoting Positive American Ideals for 2009. In addition, it distributed, with “Ladies in Shroud,” the Movie theater for Peace Honor for Justice with the Berlin Film Event and won Exceptional Foreign FILM in the NAACP Image Honours. Nowrasteh is creating a film version from the Last Marketing campaign, Thurston Clarke’s accounts of Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential marketing campaign. Nowrasteh is focusing on an version of Anne Rice’s book Christ god, the father: Out of Egypt that he’ll adapt (with wife Betsy) and direct. The task grew out of the rave evaluate Ms. Rice published from the film, The Stoning of Soraya M., on her behalf Facebook web page. Through her agent her book was delivered to the Nowrasteh’s plus they agreed to go after it, placing the task up with 1492 Images and CJ Entertainment. His perhaps most obviously other project is normally a film about Andrew Jackson entitled The Fight of New Orleans. He’s partnered with manufacturer/supervisor Alan Siegel and Gerard Butler provides expressed curiosity about portraying Jackson who led a ragtag military in defeating the United kingdom at New Orleans on January 8, 1815.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Cyrus Nowrasteh
Profession	Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
Education	University of Southern California, Madison West High School, New Mexico State University
Nationality	American
Spouse	Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh
Children	Alex Nowrasteh, Mark Nowrasteh
Movies	The Young Messiah, The Stoning of Soraya M., 10,000 Black Men Named George, The Day Reagan Was Shot, The Island, Veiled Threat