---
name: "Brandon Margolis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brandon-margolis"
fi1m_id: "brandon-margolis"
imdb_id: "nm2474120"
tmdb_id: 1311444
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "8 October 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T14:01:05.005169+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brandon Margolis

## Identity

Brandon Margolis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brandon-margolis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brandon-margolis
- **IMDb ID:** nm2474120
- **TMDB ID:** 1311444
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2474120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1311444

Writer. Born 8 October 1980 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 8 October 1980, New York City, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2474120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1311444

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Blacklist*](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brandon Margolis is an American television writer and producer. Born on 8 October 1980 in New York City, he worked as an assistant on series including *The Office* and *Parks and Recreation* after moving to Los Angeles. He met longtime writing partner Brandon Sonnier through mutual contacts and the pair completed NBC's Writers on the Verge programme.

They joined the writing staff of *The Blacklist* as staff writers for its first season in 2013. Margolis received story and teleplay credits on the series and rose to producer and supervising producer. The duo, often referred to as "The Brandons", co-created and served as showrunners on *L.A.'s Finest* (2019).

Their other credits include writing for *S.W.A.T.* (2017), *Alert: Missing Persons Unit* (2023) and *Accused* (2023), and creating *Boston Blue* (2025).

*Sources: imdb.com, absolutemusicchat.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Blacklist* (2013), Fi1m 63, Teleplay, Executive Story Editor, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Boston Blue* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Accused* (2023), series, Story
- *Alert: Missing Persons Unit* (2023), series, Writer
- *L.A.'s Finest* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *S.W.A.T.* (2017), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Blacklist* (2013), series, Writer, Teleplay, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor, Supervising Producer, Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/brandon-margolis