Gary Ross
- Born: 3 Nov, 1956
This son of Hollywood screenwriter Arthur Ross initially wrote fiction but eventually followed in his father's footsteps, scoring a mega-hit with his first produced feature script. "Big" (1988), co-written and co-produced with Anne Spielberg, recounted the story of a young boy who wakes up one morning--BIG--and must navigate the world in a man's body. The writers shared an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and Ross netted a second nod for his first solo effort, "Dave" (1993), about a look-alike who steps in after the US President has a heart attack. Gary Ross has proven his ability to tap the zeitgeist and create gentle, somewhat exaggerated scripts which revolve around mistaken identities and subversion of the status quo by an outsider who often is pretendi...
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FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Arthur Ross: wrote "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (1954), "The Great Race" (1965); earned an Oscar nomination for "Brubaker" (1980); blacklisted during the McCarthy era; founded the Hollywood branch of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy in the late 1950s
- mother Gail Ross: born on October 29, 1920; died of cancer in March 1997; "Pleasantville" is dedicated to her
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