Biography

Kring was born in El Dorado County, California. He is Jewish. He has two brothers and a sister. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1983. Discussing his beginnings, Kring said:

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I never even thought about scripts when I got out of film school. I pulled cables and shot documentaries. I finally got a gig with commercial house where I would come on with a camera crew as second assistant shooting Japanese cigarette commercials. I had an opportunity to get into the camera crew and decided I did not really want to do that with my life. So I sat down and wrote a script and went back to all the people I had met, got an agent out of it and started going out on a gazillion pitch meetings, and pitched anything I could.

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Kring's first job as a screenwriter was for the television show Knight Rider. Other early projects included co-writing an episode of Misfits of Science (which, like his later project Heroes, featured super-powered humans as a main theme) and Teen Wolf Too with Jeph Loeb. Kring and Loeb would collaborate again when producing Heroes. Kring also co-wrote the 2010 book Shift: A Novel (Gates of Orpheus Trilogy) with Dale Peck.

After the cancellation of Heroes in 2010 Kring created the TV series Touch, a drama focusing on a father (Kiefer Sutherland) who discovers that his mute son can predict future events. The series premiered on January 25, 2012 on Fox and was cancelled after two seasons on May 9, 2013.

On February 22, 2014, during its Olympics coverage, NBC announced Heroes is coming back as a 13-episode event miniseries titled Heroes Reborn. It will premiere in 2015 with creator Tim Kring as the executive producer.

Awards and nominations

Kring won an Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for Outstanding Drama Series as the producer for Heroes. He was also named one of the Masters of Sci Fi TV for his work on the series.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996-1997	Chicago Hope	Producer
1999-2002	Strange World	Creator
1999-2001	Providence	Co-executive producer
2001-2007	Crossing Jordan	Creator/Executive producer
2006-2010	Heroes	Creator/Executive producer
2012-2013	Touch	Creator/Executive producer
2015	Dig	Co-creator/Co-executive creator
2015-2016	Heroes Reborn	Creator/Executive creator

[ Source: Wikipedia ]