---
name: "Mark Heyman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-heyman"
fi1m_id: "mark-heyman"
imdb_id: "nm2114730"
tmdb_id: 143258
wikidata_id: "Q15069862"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "26 November 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T08:29:57.609227+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 Heyman

## Identity

Mark Heyman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-heyman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-heyman
- **IMDb ID:** nm2114730
- **TMDB ID:** 143258
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15069862
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Heyman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15069862, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2114730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143258

Writer and producer. Born 26 November 1979 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 26 November 1979, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 2 writing, 2 producing
- **BAFTA Film Awards:** 1 BAFTA nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 85 (1), 2010s 73 (2), 2020s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Heyman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15069862, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2114730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143258

## Coming up

- *Pendulum* (2027-01-01), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Boogeyman*](https://film.one/film/the-boogeyman.md) (62)

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

## Biography

Mark Heyman is an American screenwriter and producer. He grew up in New Mexico and studied modern culture and media at Brown University, graduating in 2002, before attending New York University’s graduate film programme.

He began his career as director of development at Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures and co-produced Aronofsky’s *The Wrestler* (2008). Heyman later focused on writing, co-writing the screenplay for *Black Swan* (2010) with Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin. He co-wrote *The Skeleton Twins* (2014) and created the television series *Strange Angel* (2018–2019). Heyman wrote the final shooting script for *The Boogeyman* (2023).

Heyman received BAFTA and Writers Guild of America nominations for his work on *Black Swan*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Boogeyman* (2023), Fi1m 62, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-boogeyman.md)
- *Black Swan* (2010), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)

### Produced (2)

- *mother!* (2017), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/mother-2017.md)
- *The Wrestler* (2008), Fi1m 85, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wrestler.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Pendulum* (2027), Director, Writer
- *The Boogeyman* (2023), Screenplay — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-boogeyman.md)
- *Strange Angel* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *mother!* (2017), Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/mother-2017.md)
- *Zipper* (2015), Producer
- *The Skeleton Twins* (2014), Writer
- *Black Swan* (2010), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)
- *The Wrestler* (2008), Co-Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wrestler.md)
- *XOXO*, Screenplay
- *The Tiger*, Producer

## Awards

### BAFTA Film Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2011: Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Black Swan*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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