Matt Nix

Matthew E. "Matt" Nix (born September 4, 1971) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is best known for creating the USA Network television series Burn Notice, the Fox series The Good Guys and more recently the Fox series The Gifted. 2Biography Nix was born in Los Angeles, California to Phillip and Susan Nix, and graduated from Analy High School in Sebastopol. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was a UCLA Alumni Scholar. He is married to Melinda Stahl. 2Select filmography The Gifted (2017 TV series) APB (2017 TV series): writer and executive producer Complications (2015 TV series): creator, writer, and executive producer The Comedians (2015 TV series): creator, writer, and executive producer Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011 television film): creator, writer, executive producer The Good Guys (2010): creator, writer and executive producer Burn Notice (2007–2013): creator, writer, and executive producer Me and the Big Guy (1999 short film): writer Chekhov's Gun (1997 short film): writer 3Burn Notice In summer 2006, Matt Nix created Burn Notice, a TV series whose title refers to the burn notices issued by intelligence agencies, which discredit or announce the dismissal of agents or sources. The television series follows agent Michael Westen (played by Jeffrey Donovan), who is abandoned by all his normal intelligence contacts. Not knowing why he has been "burned", he begins to work as a freelance spy and investigator as he tries to find out what happened. The series premiered on USA Network on Thursday, June 28, 2007. It co-starred Gabrielle Anwar as Fiona Glenanne (Westen's "trigger-happy ex-girlfriend"), Bruce Campbell as Sam Axe (an old friend who "used to inform on" Westen to the Federal Bureau of Investigation), Sharon Gless as Madeline Westen (Michael's mother), and as of season four Coby Bell as Jesse Porter (a spy Westen accidentally burned