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PETER BENEDEK is one of the founders and senior partners of United Talent Agency, one of Hollywood's leading literary and talent agencies, representing such well known talents as Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford, Ben Stiller, Johnny Depp, Vince Vaughn, Jack Black, Dick Wolf, Tom Fontana, David Chase, M. Night Shyamalan, and the Coen Brothers. Upon graduation from the University of Michigan and the London School of Economics, he entered the Columbia Law School, where he graduated with distinction in 1973. He then joined the Beverly Hills law firm of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin, where he was made a partner in 1979. He left that firm to help found Weissman, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Schulman in 1981. Then, in 1984, he left the practice of law to form the Bauer-Benedek Agency, which later merged with Leading Artists to become United Talent Agency in 1990. His wife Barbara is a renowned screenwriter of such films as The Big Chill, Men Don't Leave and the remake of Sabrina. They have one son, Harry, age 18. UTA is responsible for some of the industry's most critically acclaimed films such as The Sixth Sense, Signs, Magnolia, Fargo, L.A. Confidential, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, Crash, Being John Malkovich, and Boogie Nights, and television programs such as The Sopranos, Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Oz, The Bernie Mac Show, The Drew Carey Show, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Six Feet Under, My Name Is Earl, How I Met Your Mother, and Medium. |
Long time no write, I know. But it’s been a whirlwind few weeks and I don’t even know where to start! Meetings, lunches, travel, weddings, UMEC, script research, MORE family visits – with a little bit of writing mixed in there, too. Still no definitive word on staffing, though there are a couple irons in the fire that I can’t mention yet... 
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