Gary Ross Overview

The son of Hollywood screenwriter Arthur A. Ross, Gary Ross originally started out as a novelist. He was then hired to write a treatment for a screenplay, and found that he made more money on the treatment than on an entire novel. So he decided to try a screenplay of his own and took his idea to Anne Spielberg, Steven Spielberg's sister. Together they wrote the script for Big (1988), and the film, directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks, was a huge hit both with critics and the public,... See All