Born in London, Ontario, Canada. A two-time Emmy® Award-winner, Haggis has created a number of shows for television. While the critically acclaimed CBS series "EZ Streets" (1996) is his favorite, it also had the shortest life. However, it still routinely turns up on critics' Top Ten lists (NY Times recently named it one of the most influential TV series of all time, saying "without EZ Streets, there would be no Sopranos".) Haggis also created the quietly subversive buddy-comedy "Due South" (1994), the legal drama "Family Law" (1999), and a black comedy for CBS entitled "City" (1990). Prior to this, he wrote and produced a wide range of comedies and dramas, everything from "thirtysomething" (1987) to "The Tracey Ullman Show." In 2002 he made the transition to features, optioning a book of short stories about the boxing world, Rope Burns, by long-time fight manager F.X. Toole, and adapting the stories into a screenplay for MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004). Haggis wrote the screenplay for the remake of the classic ghost story "The Changeling." He directed and produced CRASH (2005), based on the original screenplay he wrote with Bobby Moresco. Haggis wrote, produced and directed IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (2007). Other feature story/screenplay credits include THE LAST KISS, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, CASINO ROYALE and LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (also exec. prod.) (all 2006), and QUANTUM OF SPACE (scheduled for release in 2008). Haggis is the recipient of many awards, including two Emmys, a Golden Globe, The Humanitas Prize, TV Critics Association Program of the Year Award, Viewers For Quality Television Founders Award, the Columbia Mystery Writers Award and six Gemini Awards (Canadian Emmys). In 2001 he accepted the WGA's prestigious Valentine Davies Award, for "bringing honor and dignity to writers everywhere". Haggis is co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice, and he's a member of the Board of The Hollywood Education and Literacy Project; For the Arts -- For Every Child; EMA, the Environmental Media Association; and a founding board member of ECO, the Earth Communications Office. He is also member of The President's Council of The Defenders of Wildlife, and a member of the Advisory Board of The Center for the Advancement of Non-Violence.  Nominated for Achievement in Writing (Adapted Screenplay) 2004: MILLION DOLLAR BABY  Best Picture of the Year 2005: CRASH - producer (w. Cathy Schulman)  Nominated for Achievement in Directing 2005: CRASH  Best Achievement in Writing (Original Screenplay) 2005: CRASH (w. Bobby Moresco) 4 nominations, 2 Awards