Gillian Horvath
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Gillian Horvath | |
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| Born | April 12, 1966 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Television writer/producer |
| Years active | 1989-present |
Gillian Horvath (born April 12, 1966) is a television writer and producer in the United States and Canada.
Horvath was born and raised in New York City[1] Her mother was a social worker;[2] her father, producer/director Imre Horvath,[1] was an editor and documentary producer at CBS News.[3] Horvath attended Yale University, where she graduated cum laude from the film studies program.[4] While attending Yale, she also held internships at NBC Entertainment and Universal Television.[2]
Career
Horvath's first story made it to television in 1989.[5] In 1993, she joined the team of the Highlander TV series. She spent four seasons with the series, first as script coordinator and later as associate creative consultant, and she had a hand in creating some of the show's most enduring characters (including Adam Pierson and Alexa Bond).[6] Horvath oversaw Highlander's tie-in novels and other ancillary products, and represented the series at media conventions around the world.[6] She also edited (and contributed to) An Evening at Joe's, a collection of stories written by the cast and crew of the series.[7]
Horvath has since served as writer-producer on a number of sci-fi and action shows, including Sanctuary and Flash Gordon.[8] Her other notable TV writing credits include scripts for Xena: Warrior Princess, Forever Knight, Quantum Leap, and the original Beverly Hills, 90210.[9]
During the 2007-08 WGA Strike, Horvath founded the Pink Hat Brigade, a group of female science-fiction and genre writers.[10][11] Her original superhero creation, The Survivor, was introduced in the Chicks in Capes anthology of female superheroes written by women authors, published by Moonstone Books in 2011.[6][12]
In 2012, Horvath developed and executive produced Primeval: New World, the North American spin-off of the UK hit series Primeval.[13][14] She appeared as herself in the 2013 film FANomenon.[15] From 2015-2016, Horvath was co-executive producer on the final season of Beauty & the Beast for The CW in 2022.[3]
In 2022, Horvath was the show runner and head writer on Supernatural Academy, an animated series on Peacock based on the bestselling books by Jaymin Eve.[16] Later that year, she served as co-executive producer of the award-winning Apple TV+ series Circuit Breakers.[8][17]
Writing credits
Television
- Miami Vice (1989)
- Quantum Leap (1992)
- Beverly Hills, 90210 (1993)
- Forever Knight (1994-1996)
- Diagnosis: Murder (1996)
- Baywatch (1997)
- Xena: Warrior Princess (1998)
- Shadow Raiders (1999)
- Queen of Swords (2001)
- MythQuest (2001)
- Beastmaster (2002)
- Adventure Inc. (2002-2003)
- Largo Winch (2003)
- Andromeda (2004-2005)
- Young Blades (2005)
- Painkiller Jane (2007)
- Flash Gordon (2007-2008)
- Sanctuary (2010-2011)
- The Haunting Hour: The Series (2011-2012)
- Primeval: New World (2012-2013)
- Olympus (2015)
- Beauty and the Beast (2015-2016)
- Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2021)
- Supernatural Academy (2022)
Film
- Highlander: Endgame (2000)
- On the Other Hand, Death (2008)
