--- name: "Jeffrey Lieber" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeffrey-lieber" fi1m_id: "jeffrey-lieber" imdb_id: "nm0509340" tmdb_id: 1237491 wikidata_id: "Q376260" roles: ["Writer"] born: "1 January 1969" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "writer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-23T22:32:27.002763+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." --- # Jeffrey Lieber ## Identity Jeffrey Lieber - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeffrey-lieber - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jeffrey-lieber - **IMDb ID:** nm0509340 - **TMDB ID:** 1237491 - **Wikidata ID:** Q376260 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lieber, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237491 Writer. Born 1 January 1969 in Evanston. ## Details - **Work:** Writer - **Born:** 1 January 1969, Evanston - **Active:** 2004–2016 - **Frequently works with:** [Karen Gaviola](https://film.one/person/karen-gaviola.md), [Matt Earl Beesley](https://film.one/person/matt-earl-beesley.md) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lieber, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376260, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0509340/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237491 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Lost*](https://film.one/tv/lost.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Jeffrey Lieber > Jeffrey Lieber’s work keeps returning to people who have to function together under pressure. We rate *Lost* highly, but his contribution belongs to its beginnings; its later ingenuity and frustrations cannot fairly be assigned to him. The opening plane crash of *Lost* (2004) makes us care about strangers before we know much about them. We were frightened by its confusion and pace, with scarcely time to take in the danger. The ensemble then gives us reasons to stay, even when the storytelling begins to make us wait too long for answers. That ability to get people interested in one another is the useful place to begin with Jeffrey Lieber. In 2003, his pitch for *Nowhere* proposed a realistic drama about plane-crash survivors building a society. He was removed after the initial draft, with no further involvement in *Lost*. He shares its co-creator credit with J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. We cannot fairly assign its later achievements or failings to him. What interests us in his proposal is the practical question beneath the disaster: how do people who owe one another nothing learn to cooperate? His earlier screen work includes *Tuck Everlasting* (2002), a fantasy romance co-written with James V. Hart. Television became his main business, with *Miami Medical* (2010) as creator and *Necessary Roughness* (2011) as writer and showrunner. He later shared showrunning duties with Gary Glasberg on *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014). These credits show a career spent sustaining ensembles as well as proposing them. The recurring interest is people trying to do a job together, with character expected to keep us watching beyond the immediate problem. Creating the science-fiction series *Impulse* (2018) took him beyond the realism of that original survival pitch. His strength lies in developing groups of characters who can sustain a long story, though a promising situation still needs episodes worth returning for. On *Lost*, our patience is usually rewarded by the people, and sometimes tried by the mysteries. Start there for the passengers, without treating the co-creator credit as proof that every decision was his. ## Biography Jeffrey Lieber is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is credited as co-creator of the ABC series *Lost* (2004), on which he also received story credit for the pilot episodes. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films *Tangled* (2001) and *Tuck Everlasting* (2002). Lieber was born in Evanston, Illinois, and studied acting at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning a BFA. He began his career as an actor before turning to writing. He created the series *Miami Medical* (2010) and *Impulse* (2018), and has written episodes of *NCIS: New Orleans*, *Lucifer*, *Charmed* and *Matlock* (2024). Lieber and the *Lost* writing staff shared a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series in 2006. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Lost* (2004), Fi1m 81, Creator, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Matlock* (2024), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer, Teleplay - *Don't Look Deeper* (2020), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *Charmed* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer - *Impulse* (2018), series, Teleplay, Story, Executive Producer, Creator - *Salvation* (2017), series, Writer - *Lucifer* (2016), series, Consulting Producer, Writer - *NCIS: New Orleans* (2014), series, Writer, Executive Producer - *The Originals* (2013), series, Teleplay, Writer - *Necessary Roughness* (2011), series, Writer - *Miami Medical* (2010), series, Executive Producer, Creator - *Hitched* (2005), Teleplay, Executive Producer - *Lost* (2004), series, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/lost.md) - *Tuck Everlasting* (2002), Screenplay - *Tangled* (2001), Story, Co-Producer, Screenplay ## Gallery - ![Jeffrey Lieber](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-6fa9b7f27559.jpg) Jeffrey Lieber — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Jeffrey_Lieber_at_Netroots_Nation_2008_%282681890885%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jeff Lieber's shoes (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-2f18419ca8c4.jpg) Jeff Lieber's shoes (2008) — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Jeff_Lieber%27s_shoes_%282682767004%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jeff Lieber blogging (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-2a6077341ec3.jpg) Jeff Lieber blogging (2008) — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Jeff_Lieber_blogging_at_Netroots_Nation_2008_%282681948741%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jeff Lieber blogging (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-6a4478d3c134.jpg) Jeff Lieber blogging (2008) — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Jeff_Lieber_blogging_at_Netroots_Nation_2008_%282682767068%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Katie Halper and Jeff Lieber (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-762ec5b2d27b.jpg) Katie Halper and Jeff Lieber (2008) — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Jeffrey_Lieber_and_Katie_Halper_at_Netroots_Nation_2008_%282681890885%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jeff Lieber sees my posted photos of him (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/100813/gallery-2d016cc86eca.jpg) Jeff Lieber sees my posted photos of him (2008) — Neeta Lind, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Jeffrey_Lieber_during_Nancy_Pelosi%27s_speech_at_Netroots_Nation_2008_%282682822492%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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