The director of Star Trek, Alias, Lost, and many other hit films and series. Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, or J.J. Abrams, was born in 1966 in New York City.
Abrams’ father worked at Paramount Pictures, allowing Abrams to see many shows in production and to visit Universal Studios when he was just eight. At the age of nine, Abrams started showing interest in writing scripts and filming using his family’s video camera.
Abram’s professional career started early. His first job was scoring the music for a film called Nightbeast when he was sixteen. After graduating, Abrams wrote and co-wrote many films in the 1990s, including Taking Care of Business and Armageddon.
By the end of the 90s, Abrams started working in television. One of his first works was Felicity, a series he created with Matt Reeves, and Alias, which he thought about while working on Felicity.
After Alias Abrams started working on Lost with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. One of his most famous series and one of ABC’s biggest pilot premiere audiences since Steven Bochco’s Murder One, 1995.
Abrams then returned to movies when Tom Cruise asked him to direct Mission Impossible 3. Not long after, Abrams started working on the Star Trek franchise. Abrams also cowrote and directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015.
“ JJ just gave me a great character. It’s a challenge emotionally and physically and very dynamic on all of those fronts.” that was what Tom Cruise said once about the role Abrams had for him in Mission Impossible 3.
Behind Abrams’s films and TV series is his production company Bad Robot, which he founded in 1999 and co-runs with his wife, Katie McGrath. In 2025, Bad Robot sold its Los Angeles headquarters for $31 million and downsized its overall operations to move to New York, where Abrams now lives.
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