Darren Bennett Star (born 1961) is an American television and film producer and screenwriter best known for creating the hugely successful television series Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place (both of which were co-produced with Aaron Spelling), and Sex and the City which was based on a book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. As well as creating these series, he personally wrote a number of scripts and directed some episodes.

Star was raised in Potomac, Maryland, and attended Winston Churchill High School. His father is a retired orthodontist.

Star attended the University of California in Los Angeles, where he majored in creative writing. At 24, he sold his first screenplay, Doin' Time on Planet Earth. At the time, he was living in a West Hollywood apartment complex that later served as the model for Melrose Place.