Gideon Raff

Emmy award winning writer Gideon Raff is the creator of the Israeli series Hatufim (“Prisoners of War”) the highest-rated drama series in Israel which also won nine Israeli Emmy® Awards, including Best Directing for Raff and Best Drama Series. Hatufim was chosen by the NYT to be the best foreign series of the decade.

For his work on Hatufim’s adaptation, Homeland, Raff has received two Emmy Awards, a WGA Award, an Edgar Allen Poe Award® and a Peabody Award. Following Homeland, Raff created the FX drama series Tyrant, and co created, wrote and directed DIG an event series starring Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche for USA.

Raff wrote and directed the feature film, The Red Sea Diving Resort starring Chris Evans, Sir Ben Kingsley, Greg Kinnear and Michael K Williams for BRON studios.

Recently, Raff wrote and directed the NETFLIX show The Spy starring Sacha Baron Cohen for which Cohen was nominated for a Golden Globe.

In addition to his work on television and film, Raff is a bestselling novelist in Israel and an animal rights activist.

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