---
name: "Jim Leonard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-leonard"
fi1m_id: "jim-leonard"
imdb_id: "nm0502556"
tmdb_id: 1237877
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T13:41:37.550767+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."
---

# Jim Leonard

## Identity

Jim Leonard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jim-leonard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jim-leonard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0502556
- **TMDB ID:** 1237877
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237877

Writer. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2006–2012
- **Also known as:** Jim Leonard Jr.
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502556/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237877

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Dexter*](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md) (74)
- **Netflix:** [*Major Crimes*](https://film.one/tv/major-crimes.md) (66)

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

## Biography

Jim Leonard is an American television writer and producer, also credited as Jim Leonard Jr. He wrote the episode "Beauty and the Beast" for the fifth season of *Dexter* (2010).

He began his career as a playwright and was playwright-in-residence at New York's Circle Repertory Theatre, where he premiered numerous plays Off Broadway. He attended Hanover College in Indiana and later moved to Los Angeles. He learned screenwriting from Robert Altman.

Leonard created the series *Close to Home* (2005–2007), *Skin* (2003–2005) and *Thieves* (2001–2002). He has written episodes for *The Closer* (2011–2012), *Major Crimes* (2012–2015) and *Ray Donovan* (2019–2020), and served as a producer on several of these shows. He received a Writers Guild of America nomination for drama series work on *Dexter*.

*Sources: imdb.com, businesspeople.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Major Crimes* (2012), Fi1m 66, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/major-crimes.md)
- *Dexter* (2006), Fi1m 74, Writer, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Ray Donovan* (2013), series, Writer
- *Major Crimes* (2012), series, Writer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/major-crimes.md)
- *Dexter* (2006), series, Writer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)
- *Close to Home* (2005), series, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *The Closer* (2005), series, Writer
- *Skin* (2003), series, Producer, Creator
- *Thieves* (2001), series, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *Night Visions* (2001), series, Writer
- *My Own Country* (1998), Screenplay
- *Cracker* (1997), series, Producer

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