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Sam Esmail (born September 17, 1977) is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter who runs the production company Esmail Corp. He is best known as the creator, writer, and director of the award-winning USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), starring Rami Malek.
Sam Esmail is an American filmmaker who created Mr. Robot and Homecoming. He was born in 1977 in New Jersey and married to Emmy Rossum. See his biography, credits, awards, photos and videos on IMDb.
- January 1, 1
- 1.93 m
- Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Dec 8, 2023 · The filmmaker talks about adapting Rumaan Alam's novel, the eerie synchronicity with current events, and the ambiguous finale. He reveals how he inverted the typical disaster film formula and gave the audience a glimpse of the war that's happening.
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
Oct 30, 2019 · Sam Esmail, the creator, lead writer and director of the TV series Mr. Robot, has always identified with computer programming and hacker culture — in part because of his...
- Terry Gross
Jan 27, 2021 · Watch Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot, talk about his influences, the series ending, and his upcoming projects in this exclusive interview. Learn how he directed all the episodes, why he kept the ending a secret, and what he thinks of Stanley Kubrick.
- Steven Weintraub
- 78 min
- Editor-In-Chief
Nov 30, 2023 · Seated in his Esmail Corp. headquarters in L.A., where New York-based Esmail comes through when work demands it, he opens up about his disapproving parents, his preemptively pulled passion...
Dec 8, 2023 · A thriller about a family vacation that turns into a mystery when a cyberattack and two strangers disrupt their plans. Directed by Sam Esmail, starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke.
