Kevin Williamson Biography
Kevin Williamson born Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known for the creation of the TV series Dawson’s Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), The Following (2013–2015), Stalker (2014–2015) and more recently, Tell Me a Story (2018–).
He is also widely known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels, Screams 2 and Scream 4. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (which he also directed), and Cursed.
10 Quick Facts About Kevin Williamson
Here is a list of 10 facts
- Name: Kevin Meade Williamson
- Age: 58 years
- Birthday: 14th March
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
- Height: 6 feet
- Nationality: American
- Marital Status: Not known
- Occupation: Screenwriter and filmmaker
- Known for: Dawson’s Creek (1998–2003)
- Net Worth: $ 1 to $5 Million
Kevin Williamson Age
Kevin Williamson is 58 years as of 2023. He was born on 14 March 1965, in New Bern, North Carolina, United States. He celebrates his birthday on 14th March every year. His birth sign is Pisces.
Kevin Williamson Height
Kevin Williamson stands at a height of 6 feet or 1.84 meters tall.
Kevin Williamson Weight
Kevin has a moderate weight. He has not shared his weight with the public yet. His weight will be listed once we get it from a trustworthy source. Known for his captivating personality, he has brown eyes and his hair color is brown.
Kevin Williamson Early Life and Education
Kevin was born in New Bern, North Carolina. He is the youngest son of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. He spent his early years in Aransas Pass, Texas, near Corpus Christi, Texas. Williamson’s family returned to North Carolina for his high school years. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, where he received a BFA in Theatre Arts.
He told Entertainment Weekly interviewer, Melissa Maerz, “When I was growing up, my mom and dad took me to the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. It was a little house downtown, and The Raven was written on the walls. You had to move from room to room to read the whole story. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.”
Kevin Williamson Family, Parents, and Siblings
Kevin was born to his parents in New Bern, North Carolina. Kevin is the last-born child of Faye and Wade Williamson, a fisherman. Nothing is known about his sisters or brothers.
Kevin Williamson Partner
Williamson is openly gay. He came out to his friends and family in 1992. However, there is no information about Kevin having been married, he has not shared any information about him having married and has opted to keep silent about his personal life. He has also not shared any information about him having dated before.
Kevin Williamson Children
As of now, there isn’t any documented report on the public records about Williamson having kids. Nevertheless, this information is currently under review and will be updated once we get it from a credible source.
Kevin Williamson Net Worth
Kevin’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars as of 2023. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career. Through his various sources of income, he has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Kevin Williamson Measurements and Facts
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Kevin Williamson Wikipedia
- Full Name: Kevin Williamson
- Gender: Male.
- Occupation / Profession: Author.
- Nationality: American.
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not known.
- Sexual Orientation: Straight.
Kevin Williamson Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 58 Years Old.
- Zodiac Sign: Pisces
- Date of Birth: 14 March 1965
- Place of Birth: New Bern, North Carolina, United States
- Birthday: March 14th
Kevin Williamson Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Pending Update.
- Height / How Tall?: Average.
- Weight: Moderate.
- Eye Color: Brown.
- Hair Color: Black.
- Shoe Size: Pending Update.
Kevin Williamson Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Wade Williamson
- Mother: Faye Williamson
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Pending Update.
- Marital Status: Pending Update.
- Wife/Spouse: Not Available.
- Dating / Girlfriend: Pending Update.
- Children: Pending Update.
Kevin Williamson Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: $1 million and $5 million dollars
- Salary: Pending Update.
- Source of Income: His career
Kevin Williamson House and Cars
- Place of living: U.S.A.
- Cars: Car Brand to be Updated.
Kevin Williamson Career
Early career (1990–95)
After graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Though he landed a part on the soap opera Another World in 1990, he moved to Los Angeles the following year where he had small parts in In Living Color, a Roger Corman film, Hard Run, and in music videos.
While taking classes on screenwriting at UCLA he wrote his first script, Killing Mrs. Tingle (later retitled Teaching Mrs. Tingle) which was bought by a production company in 1995 and put on the shelf.
Mainstream Breakthrough (1995–99)
Inspired by the March 9, 1994, episode of the newsmagazine Turning Point on Danny Rolling, a serial killer in Gainesville, Florida, who preyed on college students, Williamson wrote a horror movie script, originally titled Scary Movie.
Its characters had seen many classic horror movies (e.g. Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street ) and knew all the clichés. Miramax bought the script for $400,000 for their new Dimension Films label in the spring of 1995.
Directed by Wes Craven, the film was renamed Scream, and released in the United States on December 20, 1996. It became a commercial blockbuster and critical success—ultimately drawing $173 million in ticket sales worldwide.
Kevin Williamson earned the Saturn Award for Best Writing in 1996 for his work on Scream. In 1997, Dimension Films released Scream 2, also written by Williamson. It, too, was a critical box office hit and paved the way for two more installments, Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011). The latter was written by Williamson.
Dawson’s Creek
Paul Stupin, an executive at Columbia TriStar Television, read Scream after the bidding war for the script and was convinced Williamson was just the man to create a television series for his company. The result was Dawson’s Creek, a semi-autobiographical tale set in a small coastal community, not unlike Oriental. Williamson was the model for the title character, Dawson Leery, a hopeless romantic who is obsessed with movies—especially those of Steven Spielberg. Joey Potter, the platonic girl-next-door, was based on a real-life friend of Williamson’s when he was young.
In December 1995, the show was pitched to the Fox Network, where Stupin had been an executive, but it was rejected. Then in 1996, Stupin and Williamson went to and struck a deal with, The WB. Williamson said, “I pitched it as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie.” Dawson’s Creek premiered on The WB on January 20, 1998, and was an immediate hit that helped launch the newly created television network.
In 1999, Williamson left the show to focus on other endeavors, among them ABC’s Wasteland, which failed to attract a sizable audience and was canceled after its thirteen-episode first season. He later returned to Dawson’s Creek to pen the two-part series finale in 2003.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
In 1997, Williamson penned his next film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, based on a 1973 novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. Centered on four high school friends who accidentally run over a man and dump his body in an attempt to go on with their lives, the plot focuses on the four friends a year after the accident when they become the victims of a serial stalker.
Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success and helped launch the careers of actors Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe, going on to spawn two sequels, none of which Williamson was involved with.
Later work (1999–2009)
Williamson gave up the job of writing the full script for Scream 3 in order to direct his first penned script, originally titled Killing Mrs. Tingle and inspired by Lois Duncan’s novel Killing Mr. Griffin. Starring Dawson’s Creek’s Katie Holmes, Barry Watson, and Helen Mirren, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (as it was renamed after the Columbine High School massacre) followed a group of students getting even with their vindictive teacher. The film was neither a critical nor box office success.
In 1999, Williamson created Wasteland, starring Rebecca Gayheart. A late-night, sexualized version of his earlier show, Dawson’s Creek, it aired for just 3 episodes in October 1999 before being canceled. The remaining 10 episodes were aired on Showtime’s ShowNext channel in 2001.
In 2001, Williamson created Glory Days as a mid-season replacement for The WB. The series followed a novelist returning to his hometown, a coastal community within Washington state, which was experiencing strange occurrences—seeming to mirror the plot ABC’s Twin Peaks. Debuting in January 2002, the series was canceled after the airing of nine episodes.
Williamson penned another script which Wes Craven would go on to direct called Cursed, after a failed first shoot starring an almost entirely different cast before re-writes and re-shoots turned the project into something new, it was finally released in 2005 and starred Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg, Joshua Jackson, and Shannon Elizabeth. Due to the many script changes, delays in production and low promotional budget due to all the re-shoots, the film failed to perform at the box office.
Later that same year, Dimension Films released Williamson’s horror film, Venom, about a group of teens stalked by a crazed killer in the bayous of Louisiana. Williamson is listed as a producer of the film, but not as a writer. The film opened to negative reviews and suffered at the box office, taking in less than $900,000 in gross revenue.
In 2006, Williamson began production on a new teen drama, tentatively titled Palm Springs, for The CW, the successor to the WB network. Later retitled Hidden Palms, the series was a coming-of-age drama about a troubled teen who moves with his mother and new stepfather to a gated community in Palm Springs, California, where he uncovers dark secrets about his neighbors and his home’s previous tenants.
Hidden Palms was originally intended to be a midseason replacement set to air in March but its timeslot was filled by Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll instead. The pilot eventually premiered on May 30, 2007, to favorable reviews. However, after eight episodes, the series was canceled due to low viewership ratings. The final episode aired on July 4, 2007.
Return and newfound success (2009–present)
Williamson developed a new TV series for The CW entitled The Vampire Diaries, which was adapted from a novel series of the same name by L.J. Smith.
The series follows the life of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), who falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), and soon finds herself caught in a love triangle between Stefan and his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder), while the brothers are also being haunted by the past they’ve had with Katherine Pierce (also played by Dobrev). The series also focuses on the lives of Elena’s friends and other inhabitants of the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. The Vampire Diaries premiered on September 10, 2009, and has become a domestic and international hit.
Williamson developed a new TV series for The CW entitled The Secret Circle, which was from another book series by Vampire Diaries writer, L. J. Smith. The series revolves around six teenage witches who form a Circle coven in the fictional town of Chance Harbor, Washington.
The Secret Circle premiered on September 15, 2011, just after the third-season premiere of The Vampire Diaries. It was a pickup for a full season on October 12, 2011. It was eventually canceled.
He was the writer and producer for Scream 4, which began shooting in June 2010 and was released in theaters on April 15, 2011.
Williamson created the TV series The Following, which began airing on Fox in the 2012–13 television season. Starring critically acclaimed actor Kevin Bacon, the series follows an ex-FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of a network of serial killers. The series was canceled by Fox on May 8, 2015, however, it was reported the series was being shopped to Hulu for a possible fourth season.
Williamson also created Stalker, a psychological thriller centered on a pair of detectives who handle stalking incidents for the Threat Management Unit of the LAPD. The pilot was directed by Liz Friedlander and starred Dylan McDermott and Maggie Q. The series was canceled on May 11, 2015, after one season. It was reported Warner Bros. would possibly shop the series around.
In 2017, Williamson developed Time After Time, based on the novel of the same name, with the plot reset in 2017 in New York City. It ran for only 3 of its produced 12 episodes before being canceled.
In 2018, Williamson created Tell Me a Story, a psychological thriller based on the Mexican television series Érase una vez, which takes “the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.
The pilot was also directed by Friedlander (who also directed episodes of The Vampire Diaries, The Following, and Stalker for Williamson) and starred James Wolk, Billy Magnussen, Dania Ramirez, Kim Cattrall, Danielle Campbell, and Paul Wesley. The latter was one of the main actors in Williamson’s previous show, The Vampire Diaries. The show began airing on CBS All Access on October 31, 2018.
Kevin Williamson Book
- Scream: A Screenplay
- Drugs and the Party Line
- Long Hot Summer
- Dawson’s Creek: The Official Companion
- Double Exposure
- A Capeside Christmas
- Playing for Keeps
- Dawson’s Creek: Omnibus 4
- Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries 3: The Craving L. J. Smith
- Bloodlust L. J. Smith
- Unique
Kevin Williamson Movies
- Scream
- Strip for Action
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Scream 2
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- The Faculty
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle
- Scream 3
- Cursed 2004
- Venom 2005
- Scream 4
- A Fight for Survival Film
Frequently Asked Questions About Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson born Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known for the creation of the TV series Dawson’s Creek (1998–2003), The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), The Following (2013–2015), Stalker (2014–2015) and more recently, Tell Me a Story (2018–).
Kevin Williamson is 58 years as of 2023. He was born on 14 March 1965, in New Bern, North Carolina, United States
Kevin Williamson stands at a height of 6 feet or 1.84 meters tall.
Kevin has not gone public with his relationship, it is not publicly known whether he is married or in a relationship. His partner’s information will be updated as soon as the information is available.
Kevin’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars as of 2023. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career.
At the moment, we do not have the salary that Kevin makes on a monthly or annual basis. We shall keep you posted as soon as we get the figures.
Because of security reasons, he has not revealed the precise location of his residence. We shall upload the image and address of his house as soon as we get them.
Kevin is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Kevin is still an active participant in the creative writing industry. He is still pursuing his career as a screenwriter.
Kevin Williamson Social Media Contacts
- Facebook: Pending Update.
- Youtube: Pending Update.
- Tiktok: Pending Update.
- Website: Pending Update.
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