Background and career
Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.
Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.
Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified which premiered in 2010. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans which ran from 2013 to 2018. In 2014, Yost was attached to an adaptation of the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies for WGN America. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete.
In May 2021, Apple TV+ announced that Yost would serve as showrunner and executive producer for the science fiction series Silo based on the dystopian book series of the same name by Hugh Howey. On July 31, 2026, Variety reported that Yost and Aric Avelino were developing the "Harlem Trilogy," based on three novels by Colson Whitehead, for Apple TV.
Yost won two Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.
Graham Yost is married to Connie F. Yost.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
