Darren Bennett Star (born 1961) is an American television/film producer and screenwriter.

Career

He is 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 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.

Star's other works include CBS's Central Park West (1995); The WB's Grosse Pointe (2000), which Star himself described as a satire of Beverly Hills, 90210; FOX's The $treet (2000); NBC's Miss Match (2003); Kitchen Confidential (2005); The CW's Runaway (2006); and ABC's Cashmere Mafia, which premiered in 2008. Star was also executive producer of Sex and the City: The Movie, which was released in 2008.

Future Projects

HBO is moving forward with a prostitution project, a Darren Star-penned pilot dubbed "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl". [1]

Personal

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

Star has residences in New York City and Los Angeles. He is openly gay.