Cast Detail: Naren Shankar

Prior to the Amazon Original series The Expanse, Naren Shankar spent eight seasons as a Writer-Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner of the most-watched show in the world, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2011 he helped launch NBC’s Grimm as a Writer-Executive Producer.

Before CSI, Shankar was an Executive Producer on the SyFy Channel cult hit series Farscape for The Jim Henson Company, and spent three seasons as a writer-producer on Showtime’s The Outer Limits.

Shankar began his career as a writer and science consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation and he holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Shankar has been honored with multiple Emmy nominations for Best Series, a WGA Award nomination for CSI’s two-hour event “Grave Danger” directed by Quentin Tarantino and has received WGC and Saturn Awards for The Outer Limits, CSI

Prior to the Amazon Original series The Expanse, Naren Shankar spent eight seasons as a Writer-Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner of the most-watched show in the world, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2011 he helped launch NBC’s Grimm as a Writer-Executive Producer.

Before CSI, Shankar was an Executive Producer on the SyFy Channel cult hit series Farscape for The Jim Henson Company, and spent three seasons as a writer-producer on Showtime’s The Outer Limits.

Shankar began his career as a writer and science consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation and he holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Shankar has been honored with multiple Emmy nominations for Best Series, a WGA Award nomination for CSI’s two-hour event “Grave Danger” directed by Quentin Tarantino and has received WGC and Saturn Awards for The Outer Limits, CSI, and Farscape. The Expanse won a Hugo Award for “Leviathan Wakes” in 2017 and is nominated this year for “Abaddon’s Gate.”

Shankar has a small fraction of the cats that Ernest Hemingway did, which may be used as a proportionate measure of his talent. He resides with this wife in Beverly Hills, California.