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name: "Roberto Benabib"
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born: "13 October 1959"
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updated: "2026-09-17T00:11:30.821746+00:00"
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# Roberto Benabib

Writer. Born 13 October 1959 in Mexico City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 13 October 1959, Mexico City

## Biography

Roberto Benabib is a Mexican-American television writer, producer and film director. Born in Mexico City in 1959, he graduated from New York University film school and began his career as an assistant to director Jonathan Demme.

He wrote and directed the 1997 Miramax film *Little City*. Benabib joined the writing staff of the Showtime series *Weeds* in 2005 as co-executive producer, later becoming executive producer, and contributed to 14 episodes. He has also written for *Ally McBeal* (1997) and *Kidding* (2018), and co-created the HBO series *The Brink* (2015) with his brother Kim Benabib.

Benabib received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2009 for Outstanding Comedy Series as an executive producer on *Weeds*. He adapted the libretto for Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of *La Bohème*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Weeds* (2005), Fi1m 76, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/weeds.md)

## Also known for

- *Ally McBeal* (1997), Writer, Story
- *Kidding* (2018), Writer
- *The Brink* (2015), Writer

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