Brian Hayes Currie

Brian Hayes Currie is an American screenwriter, actor and producer who was born in 1961 and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts. In the early 1990s he relocated to California and took various jobs, including nightclub work, as he pursued acting and writing. He wrote about a dozen screenplays, most of which went unproduced. His breakthrough came with Green Book (2018), which he co-wrote with Nick Vallelonga and Peter Farrelly. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the People's Choice Award, and brought him a shared Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. It earned more than $320 million worldwide and was widely praised. He also co-wrote The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022), a war drama, with Farrelly and Pete Jones, about a New Yorker who brought beer to friends serving in Vietnam.