Cliff Dorfman is an American screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, film director

Film director

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 and actor

Actor

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 best known for his work on HBO's Entourage

Entourage (TV series)

Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...

and the 2011 feature film Warrior. Dorfman's entertainment industry career began in the 1990s with recurring roles on 7th Heaven

7th Heaven

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and Beverly Hills 90210. He also worked as a Hollywood club promoter

Promoter (entertainment)

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, appearing in the documentary film Hollywood: Wild in the Streets and in Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

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' 1999 novel Glamorama

Glamorama

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, in which Dorfman is named as a friend of actor Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio

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.

As a screenwriter for Entourage, Dorfman was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award

Writers Guild of America Award

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 for the 2005 episode "My Maserati Does 185". An earlier script written by Dorfman, Five Towns, became the basis for Johnny Drama's fictional TV show of the same name. In 2007, Dorfman co-wrote a comic for DC Comics

DC Comics

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 called The Watchdogs and the Sega

Sega

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 video game Full Auto 2: Battlelines

Full Auto 2: Battlelines

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. In addition, he consulted on EA Games

Electronic Arts

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' Dead Space

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and wrote a column for Los Angeles Confidential magazine, "Cliff's Notes."

Dorfman made his feature directorial debut with the 2011 crime

Crime fiction

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 thriller Criminal Empire for Dummy's. He is also a co-writer of the 2011 mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

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 action film

Action film

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 Warrior and an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program

UCLA Extension Writers' Program

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. In September 2011, Dorfman signed with Apostle Management. He is also represented by Paradigm Talent Agency

Paradigm Talent Agency

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 and law firm Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown

Filmography as writer

• Warrior (2011)
• Criminal Empire for Dummy's (2011)
• Shoot (2006)
• Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
  (2005)

External links

• UCLA Writer's Program profile