John Hamburg

After screening his 1996 short film Tick at the Sundance Film Festival, Hamburg wrote and directed the 1998 film Safe Men. Hamburg then found greater success co-writing Meet the Parents and Zoolander, and returned to the director's chair with Along Came Polly, which he also wrote. He also co-wrote the sequel Meet the Fockers. In 2009, Hamburg wrote and directed the hit comedy I Love You, Man. He wrote the second sequel to Meet the Parents, entitled Little Fockers.^[1]

In 2016, Hamburg co-wrote the sequel Zoolander 2, which grossed $56 million at the box office compared to a $50 million budget,^[2] and directed and co-wrote the comedy Why Him? for 20th Century Fox.^[3] In 2022, he wrote and directed the Netflix film Me Time starring Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg.^[4][5]

Hamburg was born to a Jewish family^[6] in Manhattan, the son of New York City radio personality Joan Hamburg and Morton I. Hamburg.^[1] He graduated from Brown University in 1992 with a degree in history. He then attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.^[7] Hamburg is married to actress Christina Kirk.^[1]