Christopher McQuarrie

58, from Princeton Junction, New Jersey, USA

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Biography

Christopher McQuarrie (born October 25, 1968) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000). 

McQuarrie is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise, having written and directed the action films Jack Reacher (2012), as well as four instalments of the Mission: Impossible film series: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), Dead Reckoning (2023), and The Final Reckoning (2025). He was also a part of the writing and/or producing team on the Cruise films Valkyrie (2008), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016), The Mummy (2017), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), the last of which received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture.

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Timeline

2027Future projects

2025Aged 57

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

    Passer-by (uncredited)

  • Poster for Making Mission: Impossible - A 10 News First Special

    Self

2023Aged 55

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    Passenger on train (uncredited)

  • Poster for Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star

    Self (archive footage)

2022Aged 54

  • Poster for Top Gun: Maverick

    Producer

2018Aged 50

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - Fallout

    Mission Brief (Voice) (Uncredited)

2017Aged 49

  • Poster for The Mummy

    Screenplay

2016Aged 48

  • Poster for Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

    Producer

2015Aged 47

  • Poster for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

    Story

2014Aged 46

  • Poster for Edge of Tomorrow

    Screenplay

2013Aged 45

  • Poster for Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

    Self

  • Poster for Jack the Giant Slayer

    Screenplay

2012Aged 44

  • Poster for Jack Reacher

    Screenplay

2010Aged 42

  • Poster for The Tourist

    Screenplay

2009Aged 41

  • Poster for North by Northwest: One for the Ages

    Self

2008Aged 40

  • Poster for The Valkyrie Legacy

    Self

  • Poster for Valkyrie

    Producer

2006Aged 38

  • Poster for Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    Self

  • Poster for The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

    Self

2005Aged 37

  • Poster for Paradise Now

    Thanks

2002Aged 34

  • Poster for Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

    Self

2000Aged 32

  • Poster for The Way of the Gun

    Screenplay

1998Aged 30

  • Poster for Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'

    Self

1995Aged 27

  • Poster for The Usual Suspects

    Interrogation Cop (uncredited)

1993Aged 25

  • Poster for Public Access

    Cop #1 / Our Town Caller

Year unknown

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