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Nina Kostroff Noble

Nina K. Noble
Born Nina Kostroff
(1959-10-01) October 1, 1959 (age 57)
Occupation Producer
Known for The Wire
Treme
Spouse(s) David Noble
Children 2

Nina Kostroff Noble, a.k.a. Nina K. Noble, is an American television producer.

Noble is the daughter of mother Pat Curtice who worked as an Assistant Director on commercials and father Larry Kostroff who worked in the film industry in various positions including as producer of films like 1968's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1973's The Last Detail, 1982's The Year of Living Dangerously and 1983's WarGames. Noble's brother, Michael Kostroff, played defense attorney Maurice Levy on The Wire. Noble says she spent her childhood on movie sets, growing up on location.

She has a degree in sociology.

Before entering television she worked extensively in film. Initially she was a production assistant and then became a second assistant director after joining the Directors Guild of America in 1984. She worked as a freelance assistant director for ten years and worked with several notable film-makers including Alan Parker, Paul Mazursky, Ron Shelton, Stephen Frears, Paul Verhoeven and Ivan Reitman.

In 1995, Noble began producing and production managing television projects for Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana. They introduced her to writer David Simon in 1999 when he was developing his book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood for the HBO network. She collaborated with Simon and Robert F. Colesberry to produce the Emmy award-winning The Corner for HBO.


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