---
name: "Rafael Yglesias"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rafael-yglesias"
fi1m_id: "rafael-yglesias"
imdb_id: "nm0947913"
tmdb_id: 11453
wikidata_id: "Q2127030"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 May 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:59:59.428975+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."
---

# Rafael Yglesias

## Identity

Rafael Yglesias

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rafael-yglesias
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rafael-yglesias
- **IMDb ID:** nm0947913
- **TMDB ID:** 11453
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2127030
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Yglesias, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2127030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947913/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11453

Writer. Born 12 May 1954 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 May 1954, New York City
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Yglesias, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2127030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947913/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11453

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Death and the Maiden*](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Rafael Yglesias is an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in New York City on 12 May 1954, he is the son of novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias. He left school at seventeen after the 1972 publication of his first novel, *Hide Fox, And All After*.

Yglesias began writing screenplays in the early 1990s. His credits include the adaptation of his own novel *Fearless* (1993), *Death and the Maiden* (1994), *Les Misérables* (1998), *From Hell* (2001) and *Dark Water* (2005). He has also written for television series including *Aquarius* (2015–2016).

His novels include *A Happy Marriage* (2009), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. He later married novelist Ann Packer.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *One Dollar* (2018), series, Teleplay, Writer, Story
- *Aquarius* (2015), series, Writer
- *Dark Water* (2005), Screenplay
- *From Hell* (2001), Screenplay
- *Les Misérables* (1998), Screenplay
- *Death and the Maiden* (1994), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/death-and-the-maiden.md)
- *Fearless* (1993), Novel, Screenplay
- *Rising Son* (1990), Story

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