Biography
David Magee is an American screenwriter. He was born in 1962 in Flint, Michigan, and studied at Michigan State University and the University of Illinois. He began his career as a theatre actor before working as an audiobook narrator and abridger.
Magee’s screenplays include Finding Neverland (2004), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Life of Pi (2012), which earned him a further Oscar nomination and a Satellite Award, Mary Poppins Returns (2018), A Man Called Otto (2022), and The Little Mermaid (2023). He has also received the Humanitas Prize.
