Biography
Erik Jendresen (born 22 December 1959) is an American screenwriter, author, playwright and producer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Jendresen co-wrote the screenplays for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) with Christopher McQuarrie. As co-creator, lead writer and supervising producer of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), he shared a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries.
His other screenwriting credits include Killing Lincoln (2013), The Big Bang (2011) and Ithaca (2015).
