- Source of Wealth: Film and Television
- Age: 54
- Birth Place: New Bern, North Carolina, U.S.
- Height: 1.84 m (6′ 0½”)
- Marital Status: Single
- Full Name: Kevin Meade Williamson
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: March 14, 1965
- Occupation: Actor, Filmmaker, and Screenwriter
- Education: East Carolina University and University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Williamson, a screenwriter, has an estimated net worth of $55 million. Williamson was born on March 14th, 1965 in North Carolina. He was keen about a career in acting but, after getting very small roles in television shows and films, he moved to Los Angeles in the ’90s and shifted his focus to screenwriting.
In L.A., he took up screenwriting classes and wrote the scripts of “Teaching Ms. Tingle.” He eventually became particularly popular for the “Scream” franchise as well as for the films “The Faculty” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” He got the idea for the movie Scream after watching special footage on Gainesville Ripper. His noted television ventures were “Dawson’s Creek” and “The Vampire Diaries.” He was also the creator and executive producer of these two television series.
Williamson is one of the few esteemed screenwriters who got credited on movie posters. In 1996, he won the Saturn Award for Best Writing for Scream. He was named as one of Hollywood’s 50 most creative people by Entertainment Weekly.
In 2018, Williamson was able to create the psychological thriller Tell Me a Story which was based on the Mexican television series called Érase una vez. Here, he takes the most beloved fairy tales of the world and re-imagines them into a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Friedlander also directed the pilot and it starred Paul Wesley, Danielle Campbell, Kim Cattrall, Dania Ramirez, Billy Magnussen, and James Wolk. The show started to air on CBS All Access last October 2018.