---
name: "Don Roos"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/don-roos"
fi1m_id: "don-roos"
imdb_id: "nm0740400"
tmdb_id: 57579
wikidata_id: "Q3035907"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 April 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T12:07:54.725793+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."
---

# Don Roos

## Identity

Don Roos

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/don-roos
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** don-roos
- **IMDb ID:** nm0740400
- **TMDB ID:** 57579
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3035907
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Roos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3035907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740400/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57579

Writer. Born 14 April 1955 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 April 1955, New York City, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Donald Paul Roos, Donald Roos, 돈 루스
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Roos, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3035907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740400/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57579

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*This Is Us*](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md) (76)

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## Biography

Donald Paul Roos is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born on 14 April 1955 in New York, he graduated from the University of Notre Dame and began his career writing for television series such as *The Colbys* and *Nightingales*.

His screenwriting credits include *Single White Female* (1992), *Boys on the Side* (1995), *Diabolique* (1996), *Marley & Me* (2008) and *The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society* (2018). He directed his own screenplays for *The Opposite of Sex* (1998), *Bounce* (2000) and *The Other Woman* (2010). On television he created *Web Therapy* and wrote episodes of *This Is Us* (2017–2018) and *Younger* (2017–2021).

Roos has been married to actor and producer Dan Bucatinsky since 2008.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *This Is Us* (2016), Fi1m 76, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Mid-Century Modern* (2025), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Uncoupled* (2022), series, Writer
- *Emily in Paris* (2020), series, Writer, Consulting Producer
- *The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society* (2018), Screenplay
- *Doubt* (2017), series, Writer
- *This Is Us* (2016), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-is-us.md)
- *Younger* (2015), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Web Therapy* (2011), series, Creator
- *The Other Woman* (2010), Director, Screenplay
- *Marley & Me* (2008), Screenplay
- *Web Therapy* (2008), series, Producer
- *Happy Endings* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Bounce* (2000), Director, Writer
- *M.Y.O.B.* (2000), series, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *The Opposite of Sex* (1998), Director, Writer
- *Diabolique* (1996), Screenplay
- *Boys on the Side* (1995), Executive Producer, Writer
- *Love Field* (1992), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Single White Female* (1992), Screenplay
- *Nightingales* (1988), Producer
- *Casebusters* (1986), Writer
- *The Colbys* (1985), series, Writer
- *Gavilan* (1982), series, Writer
- *Hart to Hart* (1979), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Don Roos](https://film.one/media/person/1319259/gallery-7127f7506ea5.jpg) Don Roos — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Don_Roos_%284809796579%29.jpg/1280px-Don_Roos_%284809796579%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Don Roos, an American screenwriter and film director. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1319259/gallery-9a38f337643e.jpg) Don Roos, an American screenwriter and film director. (2010) — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Don_Roos_%28small%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![At the premiere of "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits", directed by Don Roos, during the Toronto International Film Festival, 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/1319259/gallery-7452438efac4.jpg) At the premiere of "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits", directed by Don Roos, during the Toronto International Film Festival, 2009. — Josh Jensen from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Flickr_-_Josh_Jensen_-_Lisa_Kudrow.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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