Marta Kauffman
American TV producer · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1956 · age 70
Marta Fran Kauffman is an American television writer and producer. She is best known for co-creating the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane; Crane and Kauffman similarly were in a friend group with four other people.
Marta Kauffman is read about 644 times a day, in 26 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 112 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Buried Under Years of DustFilm, Producer2025
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood TragedyFilm2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke ShieldsSeries2021
Friends: The ReunionFilm, Producer2019
Friends 25th: The One with the AnniversaryFilm, Producer2018
Seeing AllredFilm, Producer2017
The NinetiesSeries2014
Mimi and DonaFilm, Producer2013
Call Me Crazy: A Five FilmFilm, Producer2012GeorgiaSeries, Director, Writer2011
FiveFilm, Creator, Producer2009
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah SeneshFilm, Producer2005
RelatedSeries, Producer2002Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy SeriesAward1997
Veronica's ClosetSeries, Creator, Producer1996
E! True Hollywood StorySeries1993Family AlbumSeries, Creator1992
The Powers That BeSeries, Writer, Creator1990
Dream OnSeries, Writer, Creator1987
Everything's RelativeSeries, Writer1956Born21 September 1956People around Marta
Close ties
Jennifer Aniston Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)
Matthew Perry Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)
Courteney Cox Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)
Lisa Kudrow Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)
Matt LeBlanc Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)
David Schwimmer Marta wrote The Pilot (1994)- James Michael Tyler Marta wrote The One with the Sonogram at the End (1994)
Elliott Gould Marta wrote The One with the Sonogram at the End (1994)
Christina Pickles Marta wrote The One with the Sonogram at the End (1994)
Michael Lembeck Directed The One After the Superbowl (Part I)
Paul Rudd Marta wrote The Last One (Part I)
Morgan Fairchild Marta wrote The One with Mrs. Bing (1995)
Maggie Wheeler Marta wrote The One with the Flashback
Kevin S. Bright Also in Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary (2019)
Jessica Hecht Marta wrote The One with the Sonogram at the End (1994)
Gary Oldman Marta wrote The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding (Part I)
Alicia Keys Directed Five (2011)
Anna Faris Marta wrote The Last One (Part I)
Kathleen Turner Marta wrote The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding (Part I)
Debra Jo Rupp Marta wrote The One Hundredth (1998)
Lauren Tom Marta wrote The One with the List
Eddie McClintock Marta wrote The One Where Rachel Has a Baby (2002)
Larry Hankin Marta wrote The One with the Flashback
Jane Sibbett Marta wrote The One with Two Parts, Part One (1995)
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 9
43 credits on file
Television 16
Awards
About this person
Crane and Kauffman were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin S. Bright; and produced Veronica's Closet and Jesse. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on Related. Both writers were the creators of the HBO series Dream On. Without Crane, she co-created the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.
