---
name: "Stephen Schiff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-schiff"
fi1m_id: "stephen-schiff"
imdb_id: "nm0771496"
tmdb_id: 59583
wikidata_id: "Q7610474"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "3 March 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:15:26.791185+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."
---

# Stephen Schiff

## Identity

Stephen Schiff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-schiff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-schiff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0771496
- **TMDB ID:** 59583
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7610474
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schiff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7610474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771496/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59583

Writer and producer. Born 3 March 1954 in Detroit.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 3 March 1954, Detroit
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 91 (1), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Schiff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7610474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771496/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59583

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Americans*](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md) (91), [*Andor*](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) (86)

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## Biography

Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter, producer and journalist. Born in Detroit in 1954, he grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and graduated from Wesleyan University. He began his career as a film critic and editor at The Boston Phoenix, later serving as Critic-at-Large at Vanity Fair and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he wrote cultural profiles. He was also film critic for National Public Radio's Fresh Air.

Schiff moved into screenwriting in the mid-1990s. His credits include the adaptations *Lolita* (1997), *The Deep End of the Ocean* (1999) and *True Crime* (1999), as well as *Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps* (2010) and *American Assassin* (2017). On television he wrote episodes of *The Americans* (2013–2018), serving as writer and executive producer, and wrote the episode 'Announcement' of *Andor* (2022); he had originally been hired as showrunner for the series. He was also an executive producer and writer on *Super Pumped* (2022).

For his work on *The Americans* Schiff received a Golden Globe, a Peabody Award, two Writers Guild of America Awards and two Emmy nominations.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Andor* (2022), Fi1m 86, Consulting Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *The Americans* (2013), Fi1m 91, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Andor* (2022), series, Writer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Godfather of Harlem* (2019), series, Writer
- *American Assassin* (2017), Screenplay
- *The Americans* (2013), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Consulting Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)
- *Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps* (2010), Writer
- *True Crime* (1999), Screenplay
- *The Deep End of the Ocean* (1999), Screenplay
- *Lolita* (1997), Screenplay

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