62 years old (Born on June 09, 1961)
American screenwriter, producer, playwright; He is famous from The West Wing.
His daughter's name: Roxy, born November 17, 2000 He is considered one of Scarsdale High School's "Distinguished Alumni." His picture hangs among the other alumni near the school's cafeteria. In July 2000, he signed a four-year deal with Warner Bros. TV for approximately $15 million. The deal marks the first time that he has signed an exclusive long-term production deal. His two political stories, The West Wing and The American President, both feature heroic Democratic presidents. Ironically, his first successful script, A Few Good Men, was based on a case tried by a Republican, David Iglesias, who would later gain fame as one of the U.S. Attorneys fired by the George W. Bush administration. Attended and Graduated from Syracuse Univeristy with a BFA in Musical Theatre.Aaron Sorkin's Best Moments
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A judge sentenced him to a drug-diversion program as a result of his arrest at a California airport for carrying marijuana, rock cocaine and hallucenogenic mushrooms. [19 June 2001]
Many of his works contain references to the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Malice (1993), the doctor played by Alec Baldwin boasts that he is "never, ever sick at sea", lyrics from "The HMS Pinafore". In "The West Wing" (1999), Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) says that he was recording secretary of the Princeton Gilbert & Sullivan society, and many of the regular characters welcome Ainsley Hayes (Emily Procter) to her new office by decorating it with G&S posters and singing "He Is an Englishman", also from "Pinafore", to her. The second episode of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006) closes with the cast of the show-within-the-show singing a parody of "I Am the Very Model Of a Modern Major-General" from "The Pirates of Penzance". In "Charlie Wilson's War" he gives Gust a throwaway line of "...and I'm never, never sick at sea." which is a line from HMS Pinafore.
Wrote a 1988 Rolling Stone Magazine article about the top acting schools in the U.S. One of the featured schools was the State University of New York at Purchase (S.U.N.Y. Purchase) where Janel Moloney ("Donna" on "The West Wing" (1999)) happened to be attending at the time.