---
name: "Christian Taylor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christian-taylor"
fi1m_id: "christian-taylor"
imdb_id: "nm0995597"
tmdb_id: 1222839
wikidata_id: "Q5110187"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 July 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:26:00.107059+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."
---

# Christian Taylor

## Identity

Christian Taylor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christian-taylor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christian-taylor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0995597
- **TMDB ID:** 1222839
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5110187
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Taylor_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5110187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0995597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222839

Writer. Born 17 July 1968 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 July 1968, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2001–2004
- **Frequently works with:** [Adam Davidson](https://film.one/person/adam-davidson.md), [Alan Taylor](https://film.one/person/alan-taylor.md), [Craig Wright](https://film.one/person/craig-wright.md), [Dan Attias](https://film.one/person/dan-attias.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Taylor_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5110187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0995597/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1222839

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86)
- **Disney+:** [*Lost*](https://film.one/tv/lost.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Christian Taylor (born 17 July 1968) is a British-Argentine-American screenwriter, director and producer. He studied filmmaking at New York University, where his thesis short film *The Lady in Waiting* (1992) received a Student Academy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.

Taylor contributed to the development of the HBO series *Six Feet Under* (2001), writing three episodes and serving as producer on 26 episodes across the first two seasons; the series received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. His episode "In Place of Anger" earned a Writers Guild of America nomination. He later wrote an episode of *Lost* (2004) as supervising producer and shared in the 2006 WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series.

His other television credits include writing and producing on *Miracles* (2003), creating *New Amsterdam* (2008) and *Eye Candy* (2015), writing multiple episodes of *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2011–2014) and *Teen Wolf* (2012–2014, also directing three episodes), and work on *Resident Alien* (2021), *Star Wars: The Bad Batch* (2021) and *Wolf Pack* (2023, also directing). He co-directed and starred in the independent film *Showboy* (2002), which won the Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Film Awards.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Lost* (2004), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md)
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Secret Level* (2024), series, Teleplay
- *Wolf Pack* (2023), series, Director
- *Star Wars: The Bad Batch* (2021), series, Writer
- *Resident Alien* (2021), series, Writer
- *Eye Candy* (2015), series, Teleplay, Creator
- *The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box* (2013), Writer
- *Teen Wolf* (2011), series, as Principal Thomas · Director, Writer
- *Valemont* (2009), series, Creator
- *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* (2008), series, Writer
- *Lost* (2004), series, Writer, Supervising Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md)
- *Miracles* (2003), series, Writer
- *Showboy* (2002), Director
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *The Lady in Waiting* (1992), Director

## Gallery

- ![Christian Taylor](https://film.one/media/person/61406/gallery-cd285f6e70e3.jpg) Christian Taylor — Roger Murmann from Eppertshausen, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Christian_Taylor_2013.jpg/1280px-Christian_Taylor_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/61406/gallery-a19a6484e9fe.jpg) Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010) — The Bui Brothers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Streamy_Awards_Photo_1371_%284513301315%29.jpg/1280px-Streamy_Awards_Photo_1371_%284513301315%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/61406/gallery-26f5bd9fa4a1.jpg) Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010) — The Bui Brothers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Streamy_Awards_Photo_1372_%284513301355%29.jpg/1280px-Streamy_Awards_Photo_1372_%284513301355%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/61406/gallery-48fafdfdb35b.jpg) Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010) — The Bui Brothers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Streamy_Awards_Photo_1373_%284513941698%29.jpg/1280px-Streamy_Awards_Photo_1373_%284513941698%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/61406/gallery-e8d3eba4063e.jpg) Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not h (2010) — The Bui Brothers, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Streamy_Awards_Photo_1374_%284513941756%29.jpg/1280px-Streamy_Awards_Photo_1374_%284513941756%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1993: Best Live Action Short Film (nominated), for *The Lady in Waiting*

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

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