Life and Career
Orci was born in Mexico City, to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. His mother had left Cuba for Mexico after Fidel Castro came to power. He is the older brother of screenwriter-producer J. R. Orci. He was raised in Canada, Texas, and Los Angeles. He met his longtime friend and collaborator Alex Kurtzman when both were 17-year-old students at Crossroads, a private school in Santa Monica, California. Orci went on to attend The University of Texas at Austin.
Orci's producing credits include Star Trek, The Legend of Zorro, Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, and Cowboys & Aliens. He is the co-creator, along with Alex Kurtzman and J. J. Abrams, of the Fox science-fiction series Fringe, on which he served as consulting producer.
The Hollywood Reporter listed Orci as one of the 50 most powerful Latinos in Hollywood of 2007.
Orci was invited to be a special guest at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.
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