---
name: "Linda Burstyn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/linda-burstyn"
fi1m_id: "linda-burstyn"
tmdb_id: 1821554
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:38:13.496639+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."
---

# Linda Burstyn

## Identity

Linda Burstyn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/linda-burstyn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** linda-burstyn
- **TMDB ID:** 1821554
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1821554

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1821554

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*NCIS*](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md) (66)

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## Biography

Linda Burstyn is an American television writer and producer. She has written episodes for series including *NCIS* (2003), where she also served as story editor, *The Killing* (2011), *State of Affairs* (2014), *Project Blue Book* (2019) and *Chasing Life* (2014).

She has worked as a writer and producer on multiple scripted dramas and earlier contributed as a writer and producer for Ted Koppel on ABC's *Nightline*. Burstyn is an Emmy Award winner and received a Writers Guild of America nomination for New Series for her work on *The Killing*.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com, grokipedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *NCIS* (2003), Fi1m 66, Writer, Story Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Project Blue Book* (2019), series, Writer
- *State of Affairs* (2014), series, Writer
- *The Killing* (2011), series, Writer
- *Fairly Legal* (2011), series, Story
- *NCIS* (2003), series, Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)

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