---
name: "Etan Frankel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/etan-frankel"
fi1m_id: "etan-frankel"
imdb_id: "nm2841432"
tmdb_id: 1223172
wikidata_id: "Q5402417"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T12:45:22.608647+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."
---

# Etan Frankel

## Identity

Etan Frankel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/etan-frankel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** etan-frankel
- **IMDb ID:** nm2841432
- **TMDB ID:** 1223172
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5402417
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Frankel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5402417, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2841432/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223172

Writer. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Active:** 2006–2011
- **Frequently works with:** [Allison Liddi-Brown](https://film.one/person/allison-liddi-brown.md), [Christopher Chulack](https://film.one/person/christopher-chulack.md), [John Wells](https://film.one/person/john-wells.md), [Regina King](https://film.one/person/regina-king.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (2), 2010s 70 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Sport 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Frankel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5402417, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2841432/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223172

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Southland*](https://film.one/tv/southland.md) (76), [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) (70)
- **Paramount+:** [*Friday Night Lights*](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md) (86)

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

## Biography

Etan Frankel is an American playwright and television writer and producer. He graduated from Duke University and completed the playwriting programme at the Juilliard School.

He began his career writing plays, including *Truth and Reconciliation*, which won the Williamstown Theatre Festival's Weissberger Playwriting Award in 2006. He moved into television writing with episodes of *Gossip Girl* in 2008 and joined the staff of *Friday Night Lights* for its fourth season in 2009, earning a Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Drama Series.

Frankel worked on *Shameless* from 2011 to 2016 as writer and producer. His other credits include *Animal Kingdom*, *Get Shorty*, *Sorry for Your Loss* and the limited series *Joe vs. Carole*, which he created. In 2026 he signed a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Shameless* (2011), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Southland* (2009), Fi1m 76, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/southland.md)
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Big Mistakes* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Teleplay
- *Joe vs Carole* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Get Shorty* (2017), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, Writer
- *Shameless* (2011), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md)
- *Southland* (2009), series, Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/southland.md)
- *Gossip Girl* (2007), series, Writer
- *Friday Night Lights* (2006), series, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/friday-night-lights.md)
- *Prism*, series, Executive Producer

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