Biography
Laeta Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and producer. She was born on 30 August 1965 in Winter Haven, Florida.
She graduated from Davidson College and the University of Texas at Austin, and received an MFA in screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She wrote the screenplays for Alexander (2004), Night Watch (2004), Pathfinder (2007) and Shutter Island (2010). She co-wrote the screenplays for Terminator Genisys (2015) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019), and created the Netflix series Altered Carbon (2018). She has served as executive producer on the film Avatar (2009) and the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman.
Kalogridis founded the pro-union website Hollywood United and was involved as a peacemaker during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
