---
name: "Zack Estrin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zack-estrin"
fi1m_id: "zack-estrin"
imdb_id: "nm0261922"
tmdb_id: 60048
wikidata_id: "Q8064073"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 September 1971"
died: "23 September 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-23T14:14:58.385028+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."
---

# Zack Estrin

## Identity

Zack Estrin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zack-estrin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zack-estrin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0261922
- **TMDB ID:** 60048
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8064073
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Estrin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8064073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60048

Producer. Born 16 September 1971 in Woodland, California, USA. Died 23 September 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 September 1971, Woodland, California, USA
- **Died:** 23 September 2022
- **Also known as:** Zach Estrin
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Estrin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8064073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0261922/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/60048

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Prison Break*](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md) (68)

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## Biography

Zack Estrin was an American television writer and producer. He was born on 16 September 1971 in Woodland, California, and died on 23 September 2022 in Hermosa Beach, California. He studied at the University of Southern California and began his career writing and producing on series including *Charmed* (1998) and *Dawson's Creek* (1998).

Estrin served as co-executive producer and writer on *Prison Break* (2005–2009), contributing teleplays and stories across multiple seasons. He later acted as showrunner and executive producer on *Lost in Space* (2018–2021). Other credits include *Tru Calling* (2003), *The River* (2012), *The Whispers* (2015) and *Once Upon a Time in Wonderland* (2013), which he co-created. His father, Jonathan Estrin, was also a screenwriter.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Prison Break* (2005), Fi1m 68, Teleplay, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *ONE PIECE* (2023), series, Consulting Producer
- *Lost in Space* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Whispers* (2015), series, Writer
- *Once Upon a Time in Wonderland* (2013), series, Writer
- *Zero Hour* (2013), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *The River* (2012), series, Writer, Story, Executive Producer
- *No Ordinary Family* (2010), series, Writer
- *The Good Guys* (2010), series, Producer, Writer
- *Prison Break: The Final Break* (2009), Co-Executive Producer, Teleplay
- *Prison Break* (2005), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Teleplay — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)
- *Point Pleasant* (2005), series, Writer
- *Picking Up & Dropping Off* (2003), Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Tru Calling* (2003), series, Writer, Supervising Producer
- *Miracles* (2003), series, Writer
- *O* (2001), Associate Producer
- *Stranger Than Fiction* (2000), Executive Producer
- *Charmed* (1998), series, Writer, Story Editor, Teleplay, Executive Story Editor
- *Dawson's Creek* (1998), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Zack Estrin speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "Netflix's Lost in Space", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski](https://film.one/media/person/1374176/gallery-a024e78f0d19.jpg) Zack Estrin speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "Netflix's Lost in Space", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Zack_Estrin_%2827234196398%29.jpg/1280px-Zack_Estrin_%2827234196398%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zack Estrin speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "Netflix's Lost in Space", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski](https://film.one/media/person/1374176/gallery-73f5945db04d.jpg) Zack Estrin speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "Netflix's Lost in Space", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Zack_Estrin_%2827234244698%29.jpg/1280px-Zack_Estrin_%2827234244698%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Zack Estrin](https://film.one/media/person/1374176/gallery-28d2fa6698ed.jpg) Zack Estrin — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Zack_Estrin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Zack_Estrin_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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