Anthony E. Zuiker (born August 17, 1968) is the creator and executive producer of the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He produces all three editions of the CSI franchise: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. Zuiker was born in Blue Island, Illinois and graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Prior to graduating from the University of Nevada, Anthony Zuiker attended the University of La Verne, La Verne, California where we initiated into the California Upsilon chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon collegiate fraternity.
It is widely believed that Mr. Zuiker was developing his ideas for the television show while working at Steve Wynn's first megaresort, The Mirage, as a valet attendant/bellhop/tram host.
On October 25, 2007, he received the Big Brother Award Austria 2007 in the category of communication and marketing. The jury stated among other things, "The CSI television series present computer surveillance, DNA-analysis and the overthrow of civil rights in an uncritical, trivialized and dangerously onesided kind of way". Furthermore the rights of people in general and the suspects in particular would be pictured primarily as impediments of investigations.
He went to the University of Nevada Las Vegas and received a Bachelor of Arts in English
Name pronounced "Zy-kur".
He has 3 sons.
He & his wife Jennifer welcomed their third son, Noah, on March 12, 2007.
