Roberto Orci Movies and Career Information

Roberto Gaston Orci (born July 20, 1973) is a Mexican-American film producer, television producer, and screenwriter. Orci was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. His mother had left Cuba for Mexico after Fidel Castro came to power. He is the older brother of screenwriter-producer J. R. Orci. He was raised in Canada, Texas, and Los Angeles, where he met his longtime friend and collaborator Alex Kurtzman. He attended The University of Texas at Austin. Orci's producing credits include Star Trek, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, and Cowboys and Aliens. He is the co-creator, along with Alex Kurtzman and J.J. Abrams, of the FOX science-fiction series Fringe, on which he currently serves as consulting producer. The Hollywood Reporter listed Orci as one of the 50 most powerful Latinos in Hollywood of 2007. Orci was invited to be a special guest at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.