Early life

Kinberg was born in London, England, the son of Monica Menell-Kinberg and Jud Kinberg, a New York City-born writer and producer. His father's first wife was French actress Suzanne Dalbert. From age six, he was raised in Los Angeles, California. He is Jewish. He has a brother, Robert, and a half-brother, Steven. Simon Kinberg graduated from Brentwood High School, and then from Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude; in 2003 received his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where he won the Zaki Gordon Fellowship for Screenwriting.

Career

While still in film school, Kinberg sold a pitch to Warner Brothers, then went on to write scripts for Disney, Sony, and DreamWorks, working with Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer, among others. After finishing school, Kinberg moved to Hollywood, where his first screenwriting credit was a sequel to the hit action film xXx (2002), xXx: State of the Union. His next screenwriting venture was the screenplay for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, directed by Doug Liman and starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The script began as Kinberg's thesis project for film school. Kinberg also wrote the pilot episode for a television adaptation of Mr. & Mrs. Smith for ABC TV. He also appears in the movie, in a scene with Brad Pitt.

Kinberg's next screenwriting job was the sequel to X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), which he co-wrote with Zak Penn. Comic-book writer Chris Claremont wrote the novelization of the film, and made Kinberg a character in the book.

Kinberg reunited with director Doug Liman for the film Jumper (2008). Kinberg wrote and produced the movie, which stars Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, and Diane Lane. The following year, Kinberg was writer of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. In April 2010, his production company, Genre Films, signed a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox.

Kinberg was the producer of X-Men: First Class (2011), and both writer and producer of This Means War (2012). He was also co-screenwriter and an executive producer of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in that same year. In 2013, Kinberg produced Elysium.

The following year, Kinberg was the writer and the producer of the film X-Men: Days of Future Past. That same year, he produced Let's Be Cops. In 2015, Kinberg produced the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie and the live-action version of Cinderella at Disney. He also worked on Fantastic Four as writer and producer. His final film of the year was The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott.

He wrote and produced X-Men: Apocalypse, the next film in the X-Men franchise following X-Men: Days of Future Past. He is also producing an adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Murder on the Orient Express, a remake of Logan's Run, and a live-action film of Magic: The Gathering. In addition, Kinberg produced Deadpool (2016) and will produce the upcoming Gambit, both X-Men spin-off films.

The Hollywood Reporter initially reported that Lawrence Kasdan, writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and Kinberg would write and produce Episodes VIII and IX of the new Star Wars films. A week later the publication stated that Kasdan and Kinberg would be working on future Star Wars projects, but not necessarily on Episodes VIII and IX.

Personal life

Kinberg married Mali Heled on July 26, 2001. They have two sons.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Credited as		Notes
		Writer	Producer
2005	xXx: State of the Union	Yes	No
	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Yes	No	Role: Investment Banker #1
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Yes	No	co-wrote with Zak Penn
2008	Jumper	Yes	Yes	co-wrote with David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, and Steven Gould
2009	Sherlock Holmes	Yes	No	co-wrote with Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Lionel Wigram
2011	X-Men: First Class	No	Yes
2012	This Means War	Yes	Yes	co-wrote with Timothy Dowling and Marcus Gautesen
	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	No	Yes	Executive producer
2013	Elysium	No	Yes
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Yes	Yes	co-wrote with Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn
	Let's Be Cops	No	Yes
2015	Cinderella	No	Yes
	Chappie	No	Yes
	Fantastic Four	Yes	Yes	co-wrote with Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank Second unit director (uncredited)
	The Martian	No	Yes
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	No	No	Thanks and Creative consultant
2016	Deadpool	No	Yes
	X-Men: Apocalypse	Yes	Yes	co-wrote with Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris
2017	Untitled Wolverine film	No	Yes
	Deadpool 2	No	Yes
TBA	X-Men: The New Mutants	No	Yes
	Untitled Star Wars Anthology film	Yes	Yes
	Logan's Run	Yes	Yes
	Gambit	No	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Credited as		Notes
		Writer	Producer
2014-2016	Star Wars Rebels	Yes	Yes	Also executive producer
2016	Legion	No	Yes	Post-production
	Designated Survivor	No	Yes	Executive producer
2017	Hellfire	No	Yes	In development

[ Source: Wikipedia ]