Biography
Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter and producer, also credited as Tim Sexton. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he studied English at Colorado College. He worked as a copywriter, journalist and translator, including four years in Mexico, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting.
His credits include the teleplay for the HBO film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), which earned a Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award, and co-writing the screenplay for Children of Men (2006) with Alfonso Cuarón and others; the latter received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other film work includes Cesar Chavez (2014) and The Liberator (2013). He has written episodes of Chicago P.D. (2015–2020) and created the series The Lottery (2014), on which he also served as executive producer.
