The White Lotus
2021
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He is a writer, director and producer, mostly acknowledged for his award-winning HBO series The White Lotus (2021). He wrote and produced the HBO series Enlightened (2011), and wrote and co-produced Year of the Dog (2007) in which he made his directorial debut. Earlier works include Chuck & Buck (2000),...
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- Pasadena, California, USA
- Enlightened
- School of Rock
- Freaks and Geeks
- Year of The Dog
- Nacho Libre
- The White Lotus
- The Good Girl
- Chuck & Buck
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The White Lotus isn't the first show created by Mike White to find success on HBO. From 2011-2013 he had another hit show on the network starring Laura Dern called Enlightened. White also stars in this satire about an ambitious young journalist named Amy Jellicoe (Dern) who has an unfortunate and untimely emotional break, and goes to Hawaii to find...
White wrote the screenplay for this box-office hit and teamed up with Jack Black for the first time in the process. The hilarious and inspirational flick about a floundering musician who stumbles into a job teaching children music at a very posh private school earned $132 million in theatersand proved that White was capable of inking some clever an...
Freaks and Geeks was a popular show around the turn of the century that was cancelled way too soon. White was a supervising producer and writer for the show back in 2000. Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Linda Cardellini, and Jason Segel it only aired from 1999 to 2000, but the story of the lives of a handful of awkward teens at a suburban Detroi...
White wore many hats on the set of Year of the Dog including his first time as director. The comedy/drama starringMolly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, and John C. Reillyalso saw him take on the roles of writer and producer for the story about a woman (Shannon) whose love for her dog and animals sees her make some big life choices, including beco...
In a second collaboration with the multitalentedJack Black, White directed him in this film that follows Black's character Ignacio "Nacho" Libre who grows up in a Mexican monastery that houses young orphans. Eventually, Nacho decides that the best way to raise money for the monastery and better support the children and decides to assume the alias o...
The crowning achievement of White's career so far, The White Lotushas struck gold as the HBO hit is coming off of a second strong season, and has been given the green light for a third. The first season took home a cache of Emmy Awards and the adult themed show about the White Lotus Resort and the tales of both visitors and guests followed with an ...
This time around, White wrote the screenplay for a film that premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2002 and starred Jennifer Aniston,John C. Reilly, andJake Gyllenhaal. Another comedy/drama, The Good Girlfollows the mundane life of a young married woman, Justine Last (Aniston) living in a small town in Texas who strikes up a romance with a younger ...
Buck (White) is an eccentric child living in a small town when he has a sexual encounter with his friend and neighbor Chuck (Chris Weitz). Later, Buck moves away and they both repress the experience. Now in his mid-twenties, Buck is a playwright who is reunited with the now happily married Chuck who is in town for the funeral of Buck's mother. Afte...
Learn about the versatile and quirky creator of The White Lotus, Enlightened, School of Rock, and more. See his filmography, awards, and collaborations with Jack Black, Laura Dern, and others.
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Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American writer, actor, and producer for television and film. He has won numerous awards, including the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for the 2000 film Chuck & Buck, which he wrote and starred in. [1] He has written the screenplays for films such as School of Rock (2003) and has ...
- The White Lotus. The White Lotus is perhaps the most perfect accumulation of all of White’s talents in one series. The HBO series focuses on a cluster of affluent guests staying in The White Lotus' Hawaii resort, who are ridiculously out of touch and complain about their problems that become more trivial the more their privilege and entitlement is highlighted.
- Enlightened. Enlightened was a series that predated The White Lotus and features one of Laura Dern’s best performances, earning her a Golden Globe. The series was released in 2011 and centers around Amy Jellicoe, a woman who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having to pick up the pieces of her shattered personal and professional life.
- School of Rock. School of Rock was released in 2003 and is the most commercially and critically successful project that White has been involved with. The film was directed by Richard Linklater and features a performance by Jack Black that propelled his stardom to new heights.
- Pasadena. Pasadena was canceled after one season, however, it’s still one of White’s highest-rated projects. The story centers around Lily McAllister (Alison Loham), who is a woman embroiled in a murder mystery that she thinks might be related to her own family.
Mike White. Actor: The Fast and the Furious. Prior to becoming an actor, Mike had an 11-year career as a member of the Navy SEALs, the world's most elite military unit, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
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- October 21, 1961
- Mike White
Mike White is a screenwriter, actor and director who has worked on comedies such as School of Rock, The Good Girl and Enlightened. See his full list of movies and TV shows, ratings, reviews and photos on Rotten Tomatoes.
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