---
name: "Carter Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carter-harris"
fi1m_id: "carter-harris"
imdb_id: "nm1265957"
tmdb_id: 2091682
wikidata_id: "Q5047165"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T23:07:47.278914+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."
---

# Carter Harris

## Identity

Carter Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carter-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carter-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm1265957
- **TMDB ID:** 2091682
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5047165
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047165, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2091682

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1990–2006
- **Frequently works with:** [Adam Davidson](https://film.one/person/adam-davidson.md), [Dean White](https://film.one/person/dean-white.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (1), 2000s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047165, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2091682

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Friday Night Lights*](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md) (86)
- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Carter Harris is an American screenwriter, producer, director and former journalist. He began his career as a reporter for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and wrote for publications including Esquire, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone and The Source, where he won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He served as executive editor of Vibe magazine and was a Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. He is an adjunct professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Harris moved into screenwriting after Michael Mann hired him. He has written and produced for television series including Law & Order (2006), Friday Night Lights (2006–2008), Lights Out (2011), Bloodline (2015–2016), Ballers (2017) and The New Look (2024). He received Writers Guild of America Award nominations for Best New Series for the first season of Friday Night Lights and for Best Dramatic Series for its second and third seasons, as well as a nomination for Best New Series for the first season of Bloodline.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tisch.nyu.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), Fi1m 86, Writer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *The New Look* (2024), series, Co-Executive Producer, Story
- *Ballers* (2015), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Bloodline* (2015), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *NYC 22* (2012), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Lights Out* (2011), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), series, Writer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *Conviction* (2006), series, Writer, Producer
- *L.A. Dragnet* (2003), series, Writer
- *Robbery Homicide Division* (2002), series, Writer
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

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