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Anthony E. Zuiker (pronounced ; born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the American television show ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''. He produces all four editions of the ''CSI'' franchise: ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''CSI: Miami'', ''CSI: NY'' and ''CSI: Cyber''. Besides his work on ''CSI'', he created the murder mystery show ''Whodunnit?'' with Chris Abrego for ABC. Zuiker was also the creator of Cybergeddon for Yahoo!. He received a 2013 Pioneer Award from the International Digital Emmy Awards for Cybergeddon. In 2011, he launched BlackBox TV for YouTube. He also assisted in the writing of ''Terminator Salvation''. Most recently, Zuiker launched his first animated series for kids "Mysteryopolis" on nabi tablets. ==Life and career== Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois, in the same hospital as ''CSI: NY'' star Gary Sinise.〔(Beyond CSI: Inside Anthony Zuiker's New Cross-Platform Experiment )〕 When he was six months old, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where his mother, Diana, worked as a blackjack dealer, and his father as a ''maître d'''.〔〔http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200605/20060523_zuiker.html〕 Zuiker attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, for three years and then transferred to the University of La Verne in La Verne, California, before transferring to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he graduated. During all four years he was involved in competitive forensics, advancing as far as semifinals at the national speech tournament. In a talk at the International Mystery Writers Festival in June 2008, Zuiker said that he was working as a tram driver in Las Vegas when he came up with the idea for the series. He said he was about to go out to play basketball with some friends when his first wife asked him to stay in and watch The New Detectives on the Discovery Channel. "I decided to stay, and that changed everything". He also freely admitted that he knew nothing about writing for TV and therefore his pilot script "broke all the rules," thereby creating the programs' characteristic visual and storytelling styles. He also attended Chaparral High School which is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The picture of the theatre is the school theatre at Chaparral High. Zuiker has three children. In 2013, he married Michelle Territo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony E. Zuiker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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