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Alan Ball (screenwriter)
American screenwriter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957)[1] is an American writer, movie director and producer. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and is openly gay.[2]
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Ball wrote American Beauty, for which he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He created, wrote and produced Six Feet Under (for which he won an Emmy Award) and True Blood.