Education
Born in Etobicoke, he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Born in Etobicoke, he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the television series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown. He has also written for the television series Herman"s Head and Band of Brothers.
He also created the short-lived National Broadcasting Company drama Raines.
Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the Home Box Office miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the Forex series Justified, and an executive producer on the Forex show The Americans.
He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario"s Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.
In May 2014 it was reported that Yost is developing a project for World's Greatest Newspaper America.
Based on an upcoming Alex Kershaw novel, "Avenue of Spies," it is set in Nazi-occupied Paris on the eve of World World War World War II