Dustin Lance Black

About Dustin Lance Black

For the 2008 picture Milk, starring Sean Penn, he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also directed and penned the scripts for the 2011 picture J. Edgar and the 2010 film Virginia.

Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the biopic Milk. Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and writer of 8, a staged reenactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8.

Born	June 10, 1974, Sacramento County, California, US
Alma mater	UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television 1996
Citizenship	United States
Occupation	Screenwriter, film director, film producer
Years active	2000–present
Notable work	Big Love (2006–09), Milk (2008), 8 (2011), When We Rise (2017)
Board member of	American Foundation for Equal Rights
Children	1

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Trivia

He wrote and co-produced five episodes of the HBO series Big Love.

Dustin Lance Black before fame

He grew up in a Mormon family and went to UCLA for film school.

Achievement of Dustin Lance Black

Five episodes of HBO's Big Love were written and co-produced by him.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$6 Million

Dustin Lance Black family life

In 2013, he began dating Olympic diver Tom Daley, and the two married in May of 2017. They announced in March 2018 that they were expecting a baby boy through surrogacy. In June 2018, they welcomed a boy named Robert.

Associations of Dustin Lance Black

For the 2008 picture Milk, director Gus Van Sant took on his screenplay.

Dustin Lance Black Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	178 cm
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