---
name: "Mark Friedman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-friedman"
fi1m_id: "mark-friedman"
imdb_id: "nm0295296"
tmdb_id: 87364
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T09:11:13.561617+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."
---

# Mark Friedman

## Identity

Mark Friedman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-friedman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-friedman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0295296
- **TMDB ID:** 87364
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87364

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 49 (1), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295296/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87364

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Severance*](https://film.one/tv/severance.md) (86)
- **Tubi:** [*Believe*](https://film.one/tv/believe.md) (49)

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

## Biography

Mark Friedman is a writer and producer. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

He created the television series *The Forgotten* (2009) and *Believe* (2014). Friedman contributed to the story of *Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb* (2014) and wrote episodes of *Wayward Pines* (2015) and *Dispatches from Elsewhere* (2020). He serves as writer and executive producer on *Severance* (2022).

Friedman has received two Writers Guild of America Awards for *Severance*, for Drama Series and New Series, along with further nominations including Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series.

*Sources: imdb.com, krieger.jhu.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Severance* (2022), Fi1m 86, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Believe* (2014), Fi1m 49, Writer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/believe.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Severance* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Dispatches from Elsewhere* (2020), series, Writer, Story, Executive Producer
- *Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb* (2014), Story
- *Believe* (2014), series, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/tv/believe.md)
- *The Forgotten* (2009), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Home of the Brave* (2006), Screenplay, Story
- *God Said, 'Ha!'* (1998), Associate Producer
- *Broken Record* (1994), Writer
- *Bloodlust*, series, Creator

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