Don Roos

Don Roos is a gay American screenwriter and film director, born in upstate New York in 1955 into a conservative Catholic family, who studied at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Los Angeles to write for television. He earned an Academy Award nomination for co-writing the interracial drama Love Field (1992) and wrote the psychological thriller Single White Female (1992), whose title became a permanent fixture in pop-culture vocabulary. He made his directorial debut with The Opposite of Sex (1998), winning the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and has continued to direct films known for their sharply written female characters, earning stars including Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci, and Maggie Gyllenhaal Independent Spirit Award nominations for their performances. He married actor and writer Dan Bucatinsky in 2008, and the couple have two children, Eliza and Jonah.