Zack Estrin | |
Birth Date: | September 16, 1971 |
Birth Place: | Woodland, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Hermosa Beach, California, U.S. |
Education: | University of Southern California |
Spouse: | Kari |
Children: | 2 |
Zack Estrin (September 16, 1971 – September 23, 2022) was an American television producer and screenwriter.
Estrin began his career as a writer and producer on Charmed, Dawson's Creek, and Tru Calling, before serving as a co-executive producer of Prison Break.[1] [2] He was set to write the script of an ultimately unproduced spin-off, , along with Prison Break executive producer Matt Olmstead, both of whom conceived the idea for the spin-off with fellow executive producer, Dawn Parouse.[3] He was also a producer on the film Stranger than Fiction.[1]
From 2018 to 2021, he served as showrunner on the Netflix show Lost in Space.[4]
Estrin was born in Woodland, California, and raised in Brooklyn, New York.[1] His father, Jonathan, was also a screenwriter.[5]
Estrin attended the University of Southern California.[2] He and his wife, Kari, had two daughters.[1]
On September 23, 2022, Estrin died while jogging in Hermosa Beach, California, after apparently going into cardiac arrest. He was 51, and was not known to be ill.[6]