---
name: "Marcus Gardley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marcus-gardley"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T14:31:09.483141+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."
---

# Marcus Gardley

Writer. Born 1 January 1978 in Oakland, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1978, Oakland, California, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (1), 2020s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Gardley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17183240, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5926700/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1974181

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Maid*](https://film.one/tv/maid.md) (79)

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## Biography

Marcus Gardley is an American poet, playwright, television writer and screenwriter. He was born in 1977 or 1978 in Oakland, California, and studied at San Francisco State University before earning an MFA in playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 2004.

Gardley has written for television series including *The Exorcist* (2016), *Mindhunter* (2017), *The Chi* (2018), *NOS4A2* (2019), *Tales of the City* (2019), *Foundation* (2021) and *Maid* (2021). He wrote the screenplay for the 2023 film *The Color Purple* and serves as co-chair of the playwriting programme at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. His television writing on *Maid* contributed to a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Longform Series – Adapted.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, drama.yale.edu, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Maid* (2021), Fi1m 79, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), Fi1m 83, Other — [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *American Solitaire* (2025), Consulting Producer
- *The Color Purple* (2023), Screenplay
- *I'm a Virgo* (2023), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Maid* (2021), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/maid.md)
- *Foundation* (2021), series, Writer, Supervising Producer
- *Tales of the City* (2019), series, Writer
- *NOS4A2* (2019), series, Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Chi* (2018), series, Writer
- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), series, Other — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)
- *The Exorcist* (2016), series, Writer
- *What's Going On*, Writer

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