---
name: "Noah Hawley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/noah-hawley"
fi1m_id: "noah-hawley"
imdb_id: "nm1279638"
tmdb_id: 202816
wikidata_id: "Q7045396"
roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"]
born: "10 May 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T09:05:54.628914+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."
---

# Noah Hawley

## Identity

Noah Hawley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/noah-hawley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** noah-hawley
- **IMDb ID:** nm1279638
- **TMDB ID:** 202816
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7045396
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Hawley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7045396, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1279638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/202816

Writer and director. Born 10 May 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer
- **Born:** 10 May 1967, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 4 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Dana Gonzales](https://film.one/person/dana-gonzales.md), [Bob DeLaurentis](https://film.one/person/bob-delaurentis.md), [Dan Stevens](https://film.one/person/dan-stevens.md), [John Cameron](https://film.one/person/john-cameron-1482.md), [Keith Gordon](https://film.one/person/keith-gordon.md), [Michael Uppendahl](https://film.one/person/michael-uppendahl.md), [Regis Kimble](https://film.one/person/regis-kimble.md), [Steve Blackman](https://film.one/person/steve-blackman.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (1), 2010s 68 (3), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Hawley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7045396, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1279638/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/202816

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Legion*](https://film.one/tv/legion.md) (77), [*Alien: Earth*](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md) (76), [*Bones*](https://film.one/tv/bones.md) (70)
- **Hulu:** [*Fargo*](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md) (82)

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

## Fi1m on Noah Hawley

> Noah Hawley borrows other people's worlds, the Coens' snow and Ridley Scott's monsters, and builds patient, frightening stories of his own inside them. His best seasons are excellent; he would be better still if he trusted his pictures and stopped explaining them.

Somewhere in every Noah Hawley season, a character stops what they are doing and tells a story. A wolf, a man who could not stop, a lesson with a moral. The plot waits. In *Fargo* (2014) it works about once a season; by *Alien: Earth* (2025) the parable has grown into a conversation across a table in which two people define what a person is. It is the habit of a novelist who came to television with things to say, and it is the one we would take from him if we could.

He arrived by the novel and a writing job on *Bones*, then two series that did not last. Then, in 2014, the idea that sounded like a cash-in: a television *Fargo* with none of the Coens' people in it. He kept the snow, the accents and the card claiming it was all true, and made five separate crime stories over nine years. Three are excellent, one is a slog, and the whole is far better than the idea deserved. He has done the same trick since with Marvel's *Legion* (2017) and with Ridley Scott's monsters. His own account of the method is to ask what the show would be with the monsters taken out, and it is the right question.

What he is good at is the small, dreadful thing looked at closely. In *Alien: Earth* he keeps the famous creature in reserve and gives the screen to new specimens, one small enough to hold in a hand. What it does once inside a body made us look away, which we do not often do, and it was not the blood. It was the scientists watching through glass as if this were routine, and the sound design telling us it was not. Dana Gonzales shoots and directs for him there, low light and faces lit from the side, and Jeff Russo, his composer across three projects, knows when to go low. His crime stories are patient and funny before they are frightening, and they take decent people seriously, which is rarer than it sounds.

What he is less good at is stopping. *Legion* pushed its picture-making so far that by its second season it was fairly accused of losing the story under the pictures. *Lucy in the Sky* (2019), his one feature, an astronaut coming apart after a return to Earth, was poorly received and we have not reviewed it. And in the middle of *Alien: Earth* he sits people down to talk about machines that might be people and people who behave like machines, and we were restless until a creature did something and rescued him. He has things to say about who owns a body, and he keeps saying them after the pictures have already made the point.

Start with the first season of *Fargo*, then *Alien: Earth*. When somebody sits down to tell a story about a wolf, put the kettle on. The good part is coming back.

## Biography

Noah Hawley (born 10 May 1967) is an American screenwriter, television producer, director, author and singer. He began his career writing novels and worked as a staff writer on the series Bones (2005–2008). He wrote the film The Alibi (2006).

Hawley created, wrote and directed the FX anthology series Fargo (2014–2024) and the Marvel series Legion (2017–2019). He wrote and directed the feature film Lucy in the Sky (2019) and has published six novels.

He created, wrote, directed and produced the FX series Alien: Earth (2025–present), the first television series in the Alien franchise.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Directed (4)

- *Alien: Earth* (2025), Fi1m 76, as Hermit & Marcy's Dad — [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md)
- *Lucy in the Sky* (2019), Fi1m 44, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/lucy-in-the-sky.md)
- *Legion* (2017), Fi1m 77, Director, Creator, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)
- *Fargo* (2014), Fi1m 82, Director, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Bones* (2005), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Alien: Earth* (2025), series, as Hermit & Marcy's Dad, Hermit's Father · Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/alien-earth.md)
- *Lucy in the Sky* (2019), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/lucy-in-the-sky.md)
- *Legion* (2017), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/legion.md)
- *Waffles and Bullet Holes: A Return to Sioux Falls* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Fargo* (2014), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/fargo-2014.md)
- *My Generation* (2010), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The Unusuals* (2009), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The Alibi* (2006), Writer
- *Bones* (2005), series, Writer, Co-Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Being Vincent* (2002), Director, Writer, Music
- *Terrified*, Director, Producer
- *Far Cry*, series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
- *Lost Souls*, Producer
- *Nowhere Fast*, Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Noah Hawley](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-33d39ee89921.jpg) Noah Hawley — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Noah_Hawley_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Noah_Hawley_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Executive Producer Noah Hawley accepts the Peabody for Fargo. He is joined on the stage by Warren Littlefield and John Cameron. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-810c4da1141a.jpg) Executive Producer Noah Hawley accepts the Peabody for Fargo. He is joined on the stage by Warren Littlefield and John Cameron. (2015) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Fargo_%2818415219090%29.jpg/1280px-Fargo_%2818415219090%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Noah Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jeph Loeb, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Navid Negahban, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Lauren Tsai speakin (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-de4e05ad8620.jpg) Noah Hawley, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jeph Loeb, Dan Stevens, Rachel Keller, Aubrey Plaza, Navid Negahban, Jeremie Harris, Amber Midthunder and Lauren Tsai speakin (2019) — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Noah_Hawley%2C_Lauren_Shuler_Donner%2C_Jeph_Loeb%2C_Dan_Stevens%2C_Rachel_Keller%2C_Aubrey_Plaza%2C_Navid_Negahban%2C_Jeremie_Harris%2C_Amber_Midthunder_%26_Lauren_Tsai_%2846609731855%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Executive Producer Noah Hawley accepts the Peabody for Fargo. He is joined on the stage by Warren Littlefield and John Cameron. (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-d983ea12b5dc.jpg) Executive Producer Noah Hawley accepts the Peabody for Fargo. He is joined on the stage by Warren Littlefield and John Cameron. (2015) — The Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Noah_Hawley%2C_Warren_Littlefield_and_John_Cameron_at_the_74th_Annual_Peabody_Awards.jpg/1280px-Noah_Hawley%2C_Warren_Littlefield_and_John_Cameron_at_the_74th_Annual_Peabody_Awards.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Noah Hawley](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-e33b7772d676.jpg) Noah Hawley — Image via TMDB
- ![Noah Hawley (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-54a4dd5ece3a.jpg) Noah Hawley (2014) — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Noah_Hawley_%2815042030244%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Noah Hawley speaking at the 2019 WonderCon, for "Legion", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used els](https://film.one/media/person/40959/gallery-a3f3447f13db.jpg) Noah Hawley speaking at the 2019 WonderCon, for "Legion", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used els — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Noah_Hawley_%2840559206693%29.jpg/1280px-Noah_Hawley_%2840559206693%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel 2017: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel (won)

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

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