Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner — creator (mad men) with roots in the Russian Empire

Matthew Weiner is an American television writer and producer who created Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) — one of the most acclaimed dramas in television history. Before Mad Men he was a writer and producer on The Sopranos. Mad Men won four consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series.

Tracing the roots — Jewish

Weiner's family has Russian-Jewish ancestry — the Eastern European Jewish immigrant background that runs through so much of American television's creative class. His meditation on identity, reinvention, and the American Dream in Mad Men — a show about a man who invents a new self — carries the immigrant's intuitive understanding of self-creation.

A career defined by ambition