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KING of the SMALL SCREEN

Ryan Murphy was just 4 when he decided he wanted a career in showbiz, after his mother and nan took him to see Barbra Streisand’s musical comedy Funny Girl. “I was like, ‘That’s it! I’m gay. And I’m going into show business,” Murphy told The New Yorker.

Half a century later, he has steadily become the undisputed king of the small screen, the writer and director whose face you might not recognise but whose work portfolio over the years – think Glee, American Horror Story and Scream Queens to name just three – has made him perhaps Hollywood’s most powerful showrunner.

While his creative genius and love of all things bold and

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