Sam Esmail (Arabic: سام إسماعيل‎, 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 television series Mr.
Robot (2015â€"2019), starring Rami Malek. He directed the
psychological thriller Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts and Janelle
Monae, which premiered on Amazon Video in November 2018. Esmail's work
often centers on the themes of alienation, technology, and American
society, and he is known to work with cinematographer Tod Campbell and
producer Chad Hamilton of Anonymous Content.Esmail was born to
Egyptian immigrant parents in Hoboken, New Jersey. He has an older
sister and two younger brothers, including Samer who was an editor for
Mr. Robot and Homecoming. His family is Muslim.When he was five years
old, his family moved to South Carolina then to Charlotte, North
Carolina. He attended high school in Summerville, South Carolina
where, he said, "I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my
house in high school. These are not cool things. Back in my day, those
are things that you would get beaten up for," adding, "When you're a
funny-looking Egyptian growing up in Jersey and South Carolina, it
kind of gets rough." The family eventually moved back to Sewell, New
Jersey, where Esmail graduated from Washington Township High School in
1995. As a kid, Esmail was very interested in technology. Esmail
acquired his first computer when he was nine and began computer
programming a few years later.
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 television series Mr.
Robot (2015â€"2019), starring Rami Malek. He directed the
psychological thriller Homecoming, starring Julia Roberts and Janelle
Monae, which premiered on Amazon Video in November 2018. Esmail's work
often centers on the themes of alienation, technology, and American
society, and he is known to work with cinematographer Tod Campbell and
producer Chad Hamilton of Anonymous Content.Esmail was born to
Egyptian immigrant parents in Hoboken, New Jersey. He has an older
sister and two younger brothers, including Samer who was an editor for
Mr. Robot and Homecoming. His family is Muslim.When he was five years
old, his family moved to South Carolina then to Charlotte, North
Carolina. He attended high school in Summerville, South Carolina
where, he said, "I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my
house in high school. These are not cool things. Back in my day, those
are things that you would get beaten up for," adding, "When you're a
funny-looking Egyptian growing up in Jersey and South Carolina, it
kind of gets rough." The family eventually moved back to Sewell, New
Jersey, where Esmail graduated from Washington Township High School in
1995. As a kid, Esmail was very interested in technology. Esmail
acquired his first computer when he was nine and began computer
programming a few years later.
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