John J. Strauss

John J. Strauss

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BiographyJohn J. Strauss is an American producer and writer of film and television. He has written a variety of films across numerous genres - animation, drama, comedy, and more. He is best known for writing There's Something About Mary (1998), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and The Santa Clause 2 (2002).

Strauss has written and produced for the television series Boy Meets World, is known as the writer who came up with the character name for Topanga Lawrence (naming her after Topanga Canyon). Strauss is also known for his appearances on The Howard Stern Show, where he cast Eric the Actor on an episode of In Plain Sight (2011).

He has been the showrunner on over ten different television series including Mozart in the Jungle (2014), which received a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best TV Series Comedy" in 2015, and the Peabody Award-Winning series David Makes Man (2019).

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