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.