Background
Peter Landesman was born on January 3, 1965 in New York, United States.
director journalist novelist painter producer screenwriter
Peter Landesman was born on January 3, 1965 in New York, United States.
Landesman attended Edinburgh University in 1986, Brown University in 1987 and Cornell University in 1991. He attended the National Academy of Art and Design, New York, from 1994 to 1995.
Landesman is an author, painter, and journalist. He is a contributor to periodicals, including New York and Harper’s. His first fiction book "The Raven" was published in 1995. Landesman also wrote and directed the historical film "Parkland", the 2015 sports drama film "Concussion", wrote the script of a 2014 thriller film "Kill the Messenger", directed the 2017 thriller "Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House".
Being of Jewish descent, in August 2015 he signed - as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles Jewish community - an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States "as being in the best interest of the United States and Israel".