---
name: "Jay Lavender"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jay-lavender"
fi1m_id: "jay-lavender"
imdb_id: "nm1191891"
tmdb_id: 59028
wikidata_id: "Q21994819"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "22 February 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-05T04:49:52.185593+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."
---

# Jay Lavender

## Identity

Jay Lavender

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jay-lavender
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jay-lavender
- **IMDb ID:** nm1191891
- **TMDB ID:** 59028
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21994819
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21994819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59028

Producer. Born 22 February 1975 in Albuquerque.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 22 February 1975, Albuquerque
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21994819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59028

## Biography

Jay Lavender is an American screenwriter and producer. Born on 22 February 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he grew up in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Dartmouth College. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and began working as an assistant while developing screenplays, selling his first script in 1999.

Lavender co-wrote the screenplay for the film *The Break-Up* (2006) with Jeremy Garelick, from a story by the pair and Vince Vaughn. He later collaborated again with Garelick on the screenplay for *The Wedding Ringer* (2015). He has also served as a producer on several projects, including *The Fluffy Movie* (2014).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, chicagotribune.com, scripts-onscreen.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Break-Up* (2006), Fi1m 55, Co-Producer, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-break-up.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *The Wedding Ringer* (2015), Executive Producer, Screenplay
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)
- *The Break-Up* (2006), Story, Screenplay, Co-Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-break-up.md)
- *ivans xtc.* (2000), as Phil

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