Aaron Sorkin

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Aaron Sorkin in 2008

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter and movie director. He was born in New York City, New York. He is most famous for creating and writing The West Wing, a television series about the lives of people who work in the White House. He also wrote the movies The American President and A Few Good Men (which he took from a play he had written with the same name), and created and wrote the television series Sports Night.

A director, he is known for his works in Molly's Game, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Being the Ricardos.