---
name: "Carl Hiaasen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carl-hiaasen"
fi1m_id: "carl-hiaasen"
imdb_id: "nm0382437"
tmdb_id: 1637030
wikidata_id: "Q726177"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 March 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:01:53.405954+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."
---

# Carl Hiaasen

## Identity

Carl Hiaasen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carl-hiaasen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carl-hiaasen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0382437
- **TMDB ID:** 1637030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q726177
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hiaasen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1637030

Writer. Born 12 March 1953 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 March 1953, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hiaasen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382437/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1637030

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*R.J. Decker*](https://film.one/tv/r-j-decker.md) (67)

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

## Biography

Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he began his career as a reporter at the Miami Herald in 1976, later writing an opinion column for the paper from 1985 until his retirement in 2021.

Hiaasen has written numerous satirical crime novels set in Florida, several of which have been adapted for film and television. These include the 1996 film *Striptease*, the 2006 film *Hoot*, the 2024 series *Bad Monkey*, and the 2026 ABC series *R.J. Decker*, on which he serves as an executive producer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, miamiherald.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *R.J. Decker* (2026), Fi1m 67, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/r-j-decker.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Outlaws of the Everglades* (2026), as Interviewee
- *R.J. Decker* (2026), series, Creator — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/r-j-decker.md)
- *Bad Monkey* (2024), series, Novel, Consulting Producer, Executive Producer
- *All That Is Sacred* (2023), Actor
- *The Wrecker Kings* (2019), Thanks
- *Hoot* (2006), Muckle's Assistant, Co-Producer, Novel
- *Striptease* (1996), Novel

## Gallery

- ![Carl Hiaasen](https://film.one/media/person/1324392/gallery-2efd04334afc.jpg) Carl Hiaasen — Wes Washington, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/HiaasenBookSigning.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Carl Hiaasen at the 2016 National Book Festival](https://film.one/media/person/1324392/gallery-f0bed50fed49.png) Carl Hiaasen at the 2016 National Book Festival — Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Carl_Hiaasen_at_2016_National_Book_Festival.png/1280px-Carl_Hiaasen_at_2016_National_Book_Festival.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Carl Hiaasen at the 2016 National Book Festival](https://film.one/media/person/1324392/gallery-e0fb7234a847.png) Carl Hiaasen at the 2016 National Book Festival — Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Carl_Hiaasen_at_2016_National_Book_Festival_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Autograph of American writer Carl Hiaasen (2015).](https://film.one/media/person/1324392/gallery-9a7a559364d4.jpg) Autograph of American writer Carl Hiaasen (2015). — Dinkley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Carl_Hiaasen_autograph.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award 2005: Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (won)
- Dilys Award 1992: Dilys Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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