Jonathan Nolan
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- Shed his English accent after moving to Chicago once he learned that having an English accent there was unpopular.
- Majored in English while at Georgetown University and was a staff writer for their student newspaper The Hoya.
- Wrote the short story Memento Mori which was used by his older brother Christopher Nolan as the basis for his 2000 thriller Memento.
- First television series he developed was the CBS science fiction crime drama Person Of Interest.
- Wrote a pilot for an adaptation of Michael Crichton's Westworld with his wife Lisa Joy and the pair served as showrunners after the show was picked up by HBO.