Jason Fuchs

Jason Isaac Fuchs (born March 5, 1986) is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for writing Ice Age: Continental Drift, Pan (2015), and Argylle (2024). He is also known for his role as Lawrence Grey on the Fox dramatic thriller The Passage. In January 2015, Fuchs was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

As a writer, his films have grossed over $1.9 billion at the global box office, making him one of the 100 highest grossing screenwriters of all time, one of only two writers under age 40 on that list.

Early life Fuchs was born in New York City, to a Jewish family (of Hasidic background on his father's side). He went on to enroll and graduate from Columbia University in 2009 as a film studies major.

Career Fuchs has been acting since he was seven years old, making his debut at Lincoln Center in the play Abe Lincoln in Illinois with Sam Waterston. Fuchs has also guest-starred on Cosby, The Sopranos, The Beat, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ed, and All My Children. His first feature film role was as Marvin in the 1996 movie Flipper, co-starring Elijah Wood. In 1998 he appeared in two movies, Louis & Frank and Jane Austen's Mafia!. Fuchs also starred in 2003 film The Hebrew Hammer, co-starring Adam Goldberg.

In 2004, Fuchs took the role in Winter Solstice. Fuchs wrote, produced and starred in the 2006 short film Pitch, which made its premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. He next appeared in Holy Rollers, a movie inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States. He played a brother of Justin Bartha's character, alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Ari Graynor.

In 2012, Fuchs' original TV movie musical, Rags, was broadcast on Nickelodeon. The film, which Fuchs co-wrote with Hillary Galanoy & Elizabeth Hackett with Billie Woodruff directing, was a revisionist take on the Cinderella tale, starring Keke Palmer and Max Schneider. The film received 3.5 million live viewers. Later that year, Fuchs made his feature screenwriting debut with the animated sequel Ice Age: Continental Drift. Despite receiving generally mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed $877 million at the box office, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2012, and the highest-grossing animated film internationally to that point.

His script Pan was listed on Hollywood's 2013 Black List, and was made into a 2015 film, which was a critical and box office failure. Fuchs co-wrote the 2017 film Wonder Woman with Zack Snyder and Allan Heinberg. In 2016, Warner Bros. hired Fuchs to write the script for a Lobo feature film, and a film adaptation of the video game Minecraft. Fuchs stopped working on the script for the Minecraft film in August 2018.

In 2019, Fuchs was featured in a major recurring role as Lawrence Grey on the Fox series The Passage. In November 2022, it was announced that Fuchs was one of the showrunners of It: Welcome to Derry, a prequel series to the horror films It and It Chapter Two.

In September 2025, it was announced that Fuchs would write the script to a live action adaptation of My Hero Academia for Netflix. In June 2026, TheWrap reported that Fuchs had been hired by Paramount to write the script for the Untitled Transformers: Rise of the Beasts sequel.

Awards and nominations 2018: Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Wonder Woman (Nominated) 2018: USC Scripter Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Wonder Woman (Nominated) 2018: Saturn Award for Best Film Screenplay for Wonder Woman (Nominated) 2018: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form for Wonder Woman (Won) 2019/2020: Saturn Award for Best Horror Film for It Chapter Two (Nominated) 2025: Saturn Award for Best Action / Adventure Film for Argylle (Nominated) 2026: Black Reel TV Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series for IT: Welcome to Derry (Nominated) 2026: Dorian TV Award for Best Genre Show for IT: Welcome to Derry (Nominated)

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1996 Flipper Marvin 1998 Louis & Frank Louis Jr. Mafia! Vincenzo 2000 Spooky House Yuri 2003 The Hebrew Hammer Adolescent Hasidic Boy 2004 Winter Solstice Bob 2006 Pitch Jason Short film 2010 Holy Rollers Leon Zimmerman 2010 The Firefly and the Bride Brat 2016 La La Land Carlo 2019 It Chapter Two Richie's Manager 2024 Argylle Moderator

As screenwriter/producer Year Title Writer Producer Notes 2006 Pitch Short film 2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift Rags Television film 2015 Pan 2017 Wonder Woman 2018 I Still See You 2019 It Chapter Two Additional Literary Material (Uncredited) 2024 Argylle 2025 A Minecraft Movie Additional Literary Material (Uncredited)

Television Year Title Role Notes 1998 Cosby David 2000 The Sopranos Junior Sontag Episode: "Commendatori" The Beat Joshua Meyerwitz 2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Ricky Feldman Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Nick Radsen 2003 Fillmore! Johnny Nevada (voice) Ed Wesley Stout 2005 All My Children Young Ryan 2 episodes 2019 The Passage Lawrence Grey 6 episodes 2021 Mythic Quest Strauss 1 episode 2025–present It: Welcome to Derry Co-Showrunner and co-creator

Video games Year Title Role 2004 Red Dead Revolver Billy Cougar / Jody / Young Red Harlow 2006 Bully Bo 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV The Crowd of Liberty City