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CSI: Miami
Anthony
E.Zuiker
Executive Producer
Anthony E. Zuiker is the Emmy Award-nominated
executive producer and co-creator of CSI: Miami. He is the creator of
the hit television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Zuiker
is also the co-show runner and executive producer for CSI: NY, which
enters its third season and stars Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe
and Emmy Award winner Gary Sinise ("Forrest Gump") and Emmy Award
nominee Melina Kanakaredes (“Providence”).
Zuiker
also serves as Executive Producer of CSI. Entering its seventh season
in the fall, CSI has received widespread critical acclaim and has earned
distinction as the highest rated drama on television. The show has
earned three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series in addition
to three Golden Globe nominations for Best Television Series - Drama.
Zuiker
won the Silver Nitrate Award in 2004 at the Las Vegas Film Critics
Society Awards and was nominated twice as Television Producer of the
Year - Episodic - for the PGA Golden Laurel Awards. In 2005, he was
honored, along with Carol Mendelsohn and Ann Donahue, with the
Television Showmanship Award at the 42nd Annual Publicists Guild Awards
Luncheon.
Eight years ago,
the aspiring writer worked as a tram driver at
Las Vegas' famed Mirage Hotel and went on to have
a movie produced before creating CSI. Zuiker's first feature script
dealing with the subculture of Las Vegas sports betting, The Runner, was
distributed in 1998 and starred Ron Eldard, Courtney Cox-Arquette, John
Goodman and Joe Mantegna.
Following
The Runner, Zuiker wrote Wanna-Be, which will be produced for Intermedia
Films. He was hand-picked to write the screenplay by actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, who was once attached to star in the film.
Based on an article in New
York magazine entitled Hoodfellas, the film
deals with the new generation of mall-rat mobsters.
He is currently
rewriting The Harlem Globetrotters Story, about the start-up of the
famous basketball team and their owner Abe Saperstein for Columbia
Pictures. Penny Marshall is currently attached to direct the
project.
Zuiker resides in
Las Vegas
and Los Angeles
with his wife and two sons.
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