Actor
Dustin Lance Black
Born 1974-06-1051 years old
Dustin Lance Black (1974) is best known for Milk.
Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for writing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the film J. Edgar and the 2022 crime miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven.
Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and writer of 8, a staged re-enactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8.