Dustin Lance Black

ABOUT DUSTIN LANCE BLACK

Screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2008 film Milk starring Sean Penn . He also wrote the script for the 2011 film J. Edgar and the 2010 film Virginia, which he also directed.

He grew up in a Mormon household and attended film school at UCLA.

He wrote and co-produced five episodes of the HBO series Big Love.

He started dating Olympic diver Tom Daley in 2013; they tied the knot in May of 2017. In March 2018, they revealed they were expecting a baby boy via surrogacy. They welcomed a son named Robert Ray Black-Daley in June 2018. They later had a second son named Phoenix Rose in March 2023.

Director Gus Van Sant took on his screenplay for the 2008 film Milk.