Graham Yost

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| caption = Yost with his Peabody Award in 2011

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| birth_place = Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada

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| occupation = Screenwriter, television producer, television director, actor.

| years_active = 1989–present

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| alma mater = Trinity College, Toronto

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Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.

Early life, family and education

Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003662/bio|title=Graham Yost|website=IMDb.com |access-date=April 20, 2019}} He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost,{{Cite web| url= https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2021/11/26/elwy-yost-loved-movies-and-hundreds-of-thousands-loved-watching-him-talk-about-them-that-passion-is-revisited-in-tvo-doc.html|title= Elwy Yost loved movies and hundreds of thousands loved watching him talk about them — that passion is revisited in TVO doc|work= Toronto Star|date= November 29, 2021|access-date= February 16, 2022}} the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.

He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Career

Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete. In May 2014, it was reported that Yost would develop a project for WGN America. Based on the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies, it would be set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II.{{cite web| last= Rose| first= Lacey |date=May 27, 2014| title= 'Justified's' Graham Yost Developing War Drama at WGN America| url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/justifieds-graham-yost-developing-war-707110 |access-date=October 12, 2014| work=The Hollywood Reporter}}

File:Graham Yost at the Peabody Awards 2019.jpg

In May 2021, Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series Silo based on the dystopian book series of the same name by Hugh Howey.{{cite web| last= Otterson| first= Joe |date= May 20, 2021| title= Rebecca Ferguson to Star in Series Adaptation of Hugh Howey Novel ‘Wool’ at Apple| url= https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/rebecca-ferguson-wool-hugh-howey-apple-1234977582/ |access-date=January 8, 2024| work=Variety}}

Awards and nominations

Yost won two Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/tv-show/pacific|title=The Pacific|website= goldenglobes.com|language=en|access-date=April 20, 2019}} He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/tv-show/band-brothers|title=Band of Brothers|website= goldenglobes.com|language=en|access-date=April 20, 2019}}

Personal life

Graham Yost is married to Connie F. Yost.https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/1434707b5cb6b49713d6f916f9cf243e/The-76th-Annual-Primetime-Emmy-Awards-Held-in-Los-Angeles/

Filmography

Film writer

Speed (1994)
Broken Arrow (1996)
Firestorm (1998) (rewrite){{cite web|url=http://fredrikpersson.tripod.com/writers.html|title=Writers Bio}}{{cite web |url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/showrunners-2012-justified-graham-yost-375934|title=Showrunners 2012: 'Justified's' Graham Yost|author=Tim Appelo|date=October 3, 2012|work=The Hollywood Reporter}}
Hard Rain (1998)
Mission to Mars (2000)
Planet of the Apes (2001) (uncredited)
The Last Castle (2001)
The Grizzlies (2018)