Definition of screenwriter
:a writer of screenplays
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That's a lot of kid talk for one episode, and screenwriters are usually beyond efficient with their dialogue—
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Coco Baudelle, @cocobaudelle, actress, model, and screenwriter, 54k followers.
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The actress—who has been married to screenwriter husband Marc Silverstein since 2007 and has two adorable daughters, Birdie, 8, and Cricket, 4—was kind enough to share her favorite easy weeknight dinner with us.
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During the blacklist era of the late 40s and 1950s, studio chiefs refused to hire actors, directors, screenwriters and others due to their alleged ties to communism.
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An upcoming Netflix bio-pic about screenwriter, novelist and pop culture icon Gore Vidal has two Idaho connections.
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Now, a bestselling British author and screenwriter is making his own bid for detective story immortality with an astonishing Golden Age-style mystery novel.
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Take, for instance, progressive darling Lena Dunham, the sometimes actress and screenwriter who appears to spend the bulk of her time pontificating on the Left’s petissues.
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With this conclusion, Hui and screenwriter Jiping He downplay the acts of individual Resistance members to consider the history of Hong Kong as a whole.
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First Known Use of screenwriter
1920
SCREENWRITER Defined for English Language Learners
screenwriter
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Definition of screenwriter for English Language Learners
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: a person who writes screenplays
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