Women and LGBTQIA creators

1. Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for The Selfish Giant (2013), Ali & Ava (2021) and The Arbor (2010).

Chelsea Vanessa Peretti is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer who appeared in FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013). The show won two Golden Globe Awards in 2014 including one for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy.

Peretti starred alongside Andy Samberg, Terry Crews and Joe Lo Truglio as '...

3. Ava DuVernay

Writer | Queen Sugar

A director, producer, writer, marketer and film distributor, Ava DuVernay made her feature film debut with the documentary This is the Life (2008), a history on hip hop movement that flourished in Los Angeles in the 1990's. This was followed by series of television music documentaries which ...

4. Leah Warshawski

Producer | Finding Hillywood

Leah Warshawski is known for Finding Hillywood (2013), Big Sonia (2016) and The Rundown (2003).

5. Sally Ann Brooks

Actress | Baskets

Sally Ann Brooks is known for Baskets (2016), Someone You Know (2018) and The Middle (2009). Sally Ann has been married to Peter Spruyt since February 13, 2016.

6. Jennifer Leacey

Dark City

Jennifer Leacey is known for Dark City (1998), The Rover (2014) and The Secrets She Keeps (2020).

7. Judi McCrossin

Writer | The Surgeon

Judi McCrossin is known for The Surgeon (2005), The Secret Life of Us (2001) and The Time of Our Lives (2013).

8. Samantha Strauss

Writer | Dance Academy

Samantha Strauss is known for Dance Academy (2010), The End (2020) and The Dry (2020).

9. Christine Bartlett

Writer | Five Bedrooms

Christine Bartlett is known for Five Bedrooms (2019), Playing for Keeps (2018) and Tanaka (2002).

10. Lucy Velik

Writer | Domicide

Lucy Velik was born on August 10, 1989 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an actress and writer, known for Domicide (2020), Exhaust (2022) and Mr & Mrs Murder (2013).

11. Michelle Latimer

Director | Trickster

Michelle is an award-winning director, writer and show-runner whose films have screened globally, including Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International, Berlin International, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Cannes, The National Art Gallery of Canada and the MoMA. Her recent documentary feature adaptation ...

12. Rachael New

Writer | Miss Scarlet & the Duke

Rachael New is known for Miss Scarlet & the Duke (2020), Monday Monday (2009) and Trollied (2011).

13. Nida Manzoor

Writer | We Are Lady Parts

Nida Manzoor is known for We Are Lady Parts (2021), Polite Society (2023) and Enterprice (2017).

14. Clea DuVall

Actress | The Faculty

Clea DuVall was born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1977, to Rosemary (Hatch) and actor Steph DuVall. DuVall's teenage years presented her with many challenges. Her parents divorced when she was twelve, and, when her mother remarried, DuVall moved out because she did not feel at home in the ...

15. Phyllis Nagy

Director | Call Jane

Phyllis Nagy was born on November 7, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Call Jane (2022), Carol (2015) and Mrs. Harris (2005).

16. Kacie Anning

Director | Class of '07

Kacie Anning is a writer and director. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Television from the Queensland University of Technology and is a directing graduate of the Australian Film Television Radio School, where she was awarded the Foxtel Scholarship for Exceptional New Talent in 2011. In ...

17. Magdalena Lauritsch

Director | Rote Flecken

Magdalena Lauritsch is known for Rote Flecken (2013), Rubikon (2022) and We Deliver a Smile (2020).

18. Kristen Anderson-Lopez

Soundtrack | WandaVision

Kristen Anderson-Lopez was born on March 21, 1972 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and composer, known for WandaVision (2021), Winnie the Pooh (2011) and Frozen II (2019). She has been married to Robert Lopez since October 12, 2003. They have two children.

19. Raine Allen-Miller

Director | Rye Lane

Raine Allen-Miller is known for Rye Lane (2023), Jerk (2018) and Christmas to the MAXX (2021).

20. Molly Gordon

Actress | Theater Camp

Molly Gordon is an American actress, known for her roles in Ithaca (2015), Sin City Saints (2015), Life of the Party (2018) as Maddie, Booksmart, as Triple A, and Good Boys (both 2019). She also stars on the drama TV series Animal Kingdom (2016-present), as Nicky.

She was raised in Los Angeles. Her ...

21. Naomi Alderman

Writer | Disobedience

Naomi Alderman is known for Disobedience (2017), The Power (2023) and La Mappa Misteriosa (2011).

22. Sarah Quintrell

Writer | Ellen

Sarah was born in Croydon, South London. She is best known for writing the multi-award wining Ellen (2016), Amazon Prime's The Power (2023), His Dark Materials (BBC - Season 2) and The Trial: A Murder in the family (C4 - 2017). In 2017, Sarah was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Sarah began her ...

23. Raelle Tucker

Writer | True Blood

Raelle Tucker is a playwright and television writer/producer. The daughter of a playwright and a costume designer, Tucker grew up in Ibiza, Spain. She moved to Los Angeles at seventeen where she became a founding member and artistic director of the CAG Theatre Company. Tucker attended the American ...

24. Alice Birch

Writer | Lady Macbeth

Alice Birch is an award winning British writer known for Lady Macbeth.

Awards for Lady Macbeth include: Nominated Outstanding Debut & Best British Feature BAFTA 2018, Nominated Best International Film Spirit Awards 2018, Winner 5 British Independent Film Awards 2017 including Best Screenplay, Winner...

25. Miriam Battye

Writer | Succession

Miriam Battye is known for Succession (2018), Find a Partner (2021) and Dead Ringers (2023).

26. Lileana Blain-Cruz

Director | Live from Lincoln Center

Lileana Blain-Cruz is known for Live from Lincoln Center (1976) and Dead Ringers (2023).

27. Rachel De-Lahay

Writer | The Last Hours of Laura K

Rachel De-Lahay is known for The Last Hours of Laura K (2015), Kiri (2018) and Dead Ringers (2023).

28. Ming Peiffer

Writer | Dead Ringers

Ming Peiffer is known for Dead Ringers (2023), Off Season (2012) and Grand Army (2020).

29. Susan Soon He Stanton

Producer | Succession

Susan Soon He Stanton is known for Succession (2018), Dead Ringers (2023) and Brooklyn Love Stories (2019).

30. Lauren Wolkstein

Director | The Strange Ones

Lauren Wolkstein is an American film director, writer, and editor. She is known for directing the 2017 drama-thriller The Strange Ones with Christopher Radcliff and serving on the directorial team for the third season of Ava DuVernay's Queen Sugar, which she followed with a Producing Director role ...

31. Jadesola Osiberu

Producer | Isoken

Jadesola Osiberu is known for Isoken (2017), Gangs of Lagos (2023) and Gidi Up (2013).

32. Liz Tigelaar

Producer | Little Fires Everywhere

Liz Tigelaar was born on October 4, 1975 in the USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Little Fires Everywhere (2020), Tiny Beautiful Things (2023) and Nashville (2012). She is married to Alison Rou. They have one child.

33. Naomi Iwamoto

Writer | Tiny Beautiful Things

Naomi Iwamoto is a writer, director, producer. She is best known for her work in television as a writer and producer on Hulu's Tiny Beautiful Things, Lena Waithe's Twenties, NBC's Connecting and the CBS show Happy Together. As a director she is known for her short films Lost & Found and Best Buds.

34. Ellen Fairey

Producer | Tiny Beautiful Things

Ellen Fairey is known for Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), The Sinner (2017) and Masters of Sex (2013).

35. Desiree Akhavan

Director | Appropriate Behavior

Desiree Akhavan was born on December 27, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Appropriate Behavior (2014), The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) and The Bisexual (2018).

36. Deirdre Shaw

Producer | American Gothic

Deirdre Shaw is TV writer and producer known for Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), Jane the Virgin (2019), American Gothic (2016), and Jane by Design (2012). Deirdre is also the author of a novel, Love or Something Like It, published by Random House in 2009. Deirdre lives in LA with her husband, Jay ...

37. Kaitlyn Fahey

Writer | Tiny Beautiful Things

Kaitlyn Fahey is known for Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), Little Fires Everywhere (2020) and House of Lies (2012).

38. Stacie Passon

Director | Concussion

Stacie Passon is known for Concussion (2013), The Society (2019) and The Punisher (2017).

39. Binka Zhelyazkova

Director | Poslednata duma

Binka Zhelyazkova was born on July 15, 1923 in the town of Svilengrad, Bulgaria. She studied theater at the National Theater Institute in Sofia. Her career as a film director began in 1957 when she co-directed her first feature film Life Goes Quietly By... with her husband Hristo Ganev.

At the end ...

40. Larisa Shepitko

Director | Voskhozhdenie

Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Bakhmut, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for The Ascent (1977), Heat (1963) and You and Me (1971). She was married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino, Kalinin Oblast...

41. Wendy Toye

Director | The Stranger Left No Card

Wendy Toye was born on May 1, 1917 in London, England, UK. She was a director and actress, known for The Stranger Left No Card (1952), On the Twelfth Day... (1955) and Follow the Star (1979). She was married to Edward Selwyn Sharp. She died on February 27, 2010 in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK.

42. Kira Muratova

Director | Nastroyshchik

Kira Muratova was born on November 5, 1934 in Soroca, Romania [now Moldova]. She was a director and writer, known for Nastroyshchik (2004), Vtorostepennye lyudi (2001) and The Asthenic Syndrome (1989). She was married to Aleksandr Muratov and Yevgeni Golubenko. She died on June 6, 2018 in Odessa, ...

43. Dorothy Arzner

Director | Christopher Strong

Dorothy Arzner, the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood's studio system--from the 1920s to the early 1940s and the woman director with the largest oeuvre in Hollywood to this day--was born January 3, 1897 (some sources put the year as 1900), in San Francisco, California, to a ...

44. Moufida Tlatli

Editor | Samt El Qusur

Was raised in Tunisia in a tradition-oriented family. It was in high school, thanks to her philosophy teacher, who ran a film club, that she developed a taste for the cinema. After graduating from the IDHEC film school in 1968, in the editing department, she went back to live in Tunisia in 1972. ...

45. Barbara Kopple

Producer | Harlan County U.S.A.

Barbara Kopple was born on July 30, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).

46. Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Writer | Innocence

Lucile Emina Hadzihalilovic was born on May 7, 1961 in Lyon, Rhône, France, to Bosnian parents and grew up in Morocco. She studied Art History and Film Directing at the IDHEC. She has been working in film industry since 1980's, as director, editor, writer and actress in both short and feature films...

47. Mia Hansen-Løve

Director | L'avenir

Cinema came into Mia Hansen-Løve's life when she was seventeen, as Olivier Assayas made her start as an actress in Late August, Early September (1998). Two years later, he gave her the part of "Aline" in his Les Destinées (2000). Their artistic collaboration was coupled by a union in real ...

48. Chantal Akerman

Director | Les rendez-vous d'Anna

Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, France.

49. Lotte Reiniger

Director | Silhouetten

Lotte Reiniger was born on June 2, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Silhouetten (1936), Der Graf von Carabas (1935) and Lotte Reiniger - The Fairy Tale Films (1961). She was married to Carl Koch. She died on June 19, 1981 in Dettenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

50. Agnès Varda

Director | Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.

51. Vera Chytilová

Director | O necem jiném

Vera Chytilová was born on February 2, 1929, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). She studied philosophy and architecture in Brno for two years, then worked as a technical draftsman, a designer, a fashion model, a photo re-toucher, then worked as a clapper girl for Barrandov Film ...

52. Alison De Vere

Animation_department | Mr. Pascal

Alison De Vere was born on September 16, 1927 in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India. She was a director and writer, known for Mr. Pascal (1979), The Black Dog (1987) and Yellow Submarine (1968). She was married to Karl Weschke. She died on January 2, 2001 in Cornwall, England, UK.

53. Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Writer | Roozi ke zan shodam

Marziyeh Meshkini Born in 1969 in Tehran. She is the wife of celebrated Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She studied Cinema in Makhmalbaf Film school for 8 years. Her first film 'The Day I Became a Woman", (a 3-episode story) attended the Critics Week category in Venice International Film ...

54. Samira Makhmalbaf

Director | Panj é asr

Samira Makhmalbaf Filmmaker

Born on February 15,1980 in Tehran. At the age of eight, she played in "The Cyclist" directed by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf the celebrated Iranian filmmaker.

At the age of 17, she directed her first feature titled "The Apple" and She went on to become the youngest ...

55. Athina Rachel Tsangari

Producer | Attenberg

Athina Rachel Tsangari was born on April 2, 1966 in Aspra Spitia, Greece. She is a producer and director, known for Attenberg (2010), Chevalier (2015) and The Slow Business of Going (2000).

56. Lola Randl

Director | Die Erfindung der Liebe

Lola Randl was born in 1980 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for The Invention of Love (2013), Lonely U (2012) and Nachmittagsprogramm (2004).

57. Dorota Kedzierzawska

Director | Nic

Dorota Kedzierzawska was born on June 1, 1957 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She is a director and writer, known for Nothing (1998), Time to Die (2007) and Crows (1994).

58. Wanda Jackowska

Production_designer | Teatr Telewizji

Wanda Jackowska is known for Television Theater (1953).

59. Wanda Jakubowska

Director | Ostatni etap

Wanda Jakubowska was born on October 10, 1907 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was a director and writer, known for The Last Stage (1948), Król Macius I (1958) and Pozegnanie z diablem (1957). She died on February 24, 1998 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, ...

60. Lita Stantic

Writer | Un muro de silencio

Lita Stantic was born in Argentina. She is known for Un muro de silencio (1993), Red Bear (2002) and Suddenly (2002).

61. Gerda Schneider

Writer | Ostatni etap

Gerda Schneider is known for The Last Stage (1948) and Rabot (2017).

62. Lucrecia Martel

Director | La mujer sin cabeza

Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival...

63. Barbara Loden

Actress | Wanda

A one-time pin-up beauty and magazine story model, Barbara Loden studied acting in New York in the early 50s and was on the Broadway boards within the decade. She was discovered for films by legendary producer/director Elia Kazan who was impressed with what she did in a small role as Montgomery ...

64. Mary Lambert

Director | Pet Sematary

Mary Lambert was born in 1951 in Helena, Arkansas, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Pet Sematary (1989), Madonna: Like a Prayer (1989) and The in Crowd (2000). She has been married to Jerome Gary since September 28, 1991. They have one child.

65. Rachel Talalay

Director | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Rachel Talalay was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents, Paul and Pamela, moved to Baltimore to work/teach at Johns Hopkins when she was 6 years old. After graduation from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, she met Director John Waters and entered the movie business as a ...

66. Claire Denis

Director | High Life

The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...

67. Jacqueline Audry

Director | Olivia

At the time when women directors make more and more their presence felt on the French scene, the importance of Jacqueline Audry cannot be overstated. All today's daring Metteuses En Scene are certainly her psychic daughters as they are Agnès Varda's. Audry, born in 1908, began to direct long before...

68. Leontine Sagan

Director | Mädchen in Uniform

Leontine Sagan was born on February 13, 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was a director and actress, known for Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Men of Tomorrow (1932) and Showtime (1946). She was married to Dr. Victor Fleischer (dramatist). She died on May 20, 1974 in Pretoria, ...

69. Mary Harron

Director | American Psycho

Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005). She co-wrote American Psycho and ...

70. Elaine May

Actress | Small Time Crooks

Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She ...

71. Pirjo Honkasalo

Director | Melancholian 3 huonetta

Pirjo Honkasalo was born on February 22, 1947 in Helsinki, Finland. She is a director and cinematographer, known for Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004), Tanjuska and the Seven Devils (1993) and Tulennielijä (1998).

72. Madeleine Smithberg

Writer | The Daily Show

Madeleine Smithberg is known for The Daily Show (1996), Explorer (2015) and Yahoo Current Traveler (2006).

73. Lizz Winstead

Writer | Wake Up World

As a co-creator and former head writer of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," and Co-founder of Air America Radio; Lizz Winstead has emerged as a critically acclaimed political writer and producer. As a performer, Winstead brought her political wit to "The Daily Show" as a Correspondent and later to...

74. Jennifer Flanz

Producer | The Daily Show

Jennifer Flanz is known for The Daily Show (1996), Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe: Hungary for Democracy (2022) and The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010).

75. Debbie Vickers

Producer | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Debbie Vickers was born on July 18, 1953. She is a producer, known for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), The Jay Leno Show (2009) and The Flying Car (2002).

76. Merrill Markoe

Writer | Late Night with David Letterman

Merrill Markoe was born on August 13, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Late Night with David Letterman (1982), Not Necessarily the News (1982) and Edtv (1999).

77. Amber Ruffin

Writer | Late Night with Seth Meyers

Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the Emmy and WGA Award-nominated series The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She is also an Emmy and WGA Award-nominated writer and performer for NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers." Ruffin was the first African American female to write for a ...

78. Robin Thede

Writer | A Black Lady Sketch Show

Robin Thede is a comedy writer, sketch/improvisational comedian and actress. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, earning a B.S.J. degree in Broadcast Journalism and African-American Studies. After college, Robin studied improvisation, sketch and comedy writing at The Second ...

79. Jennifer Saunders

Actress | Absolutely Fabulous

Jennifer Saunders was born July 6, 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, to Jane, a biology teacher, and Robert Thomas Saunders, an RAF pilot. She attended Central School of Speech and Drama where she met her comedy partner Dawn French. Like many of the early 80s groundbreaking "alternative" comedians ...

80. Dawn French

Actress | French and Saunders

Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates ...

81. Jo Miller

Writer | The Daily Show

Jo Miller is known for The Daily Show (1996), Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (2016) and The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear (2010).

82. Samantha Bee

Producer | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Studied at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. She waited tables for five years, did some theatre work and the odd commercial. Even kept her comedic bent alive in the Toronto sketch comedy group, the Atomic Fireballs, she formed with three other women.

83. Ashley Nicole Black

Writer | Ted Lasso

Ashley Nicole Black was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Ted Lasso (2020), A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019) and The Simpsons Movie (2007).

84. Allana Harkin

Producer | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Allana Harkin (@allanaharkin) is an Emmy Award Winning producer, director, actor and writer who has garnered 10 Emmy nominations and 2 Producer Guild nominations for her work on seven seasons TBS's "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee". Her film "The Godmother" played festivals across the country ...

85. Kit Zauhar

Director | Actual People

Kit Zauhar is known for Actual People (2021), This Closeness (2023) and The Terrestrials (2018).

86. Anna Dokoza

Producer | Special

Anna Dokoza is known for Special (2019), IV-effing (2019) and Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021).

87. Abbi Jacobson

Actress | Broad City

Abbi Jacobson is an American comedian, actress, writer, and illustrator. She is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014) alongside Ilana Glazer, which was based on a web series of the same name that the two have created three years prior. Jacobson is...

88. Ilana Glazer

Actress | Broad City

Ilana Glazer was born on April 12, 1987 in Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Broad City (2014), Rough Night (2017) and Broad City (2010). She has been married to David Rooklin since February 25, 2017.

89. Tig Notaro

Actress | One Mississippi

Tig Notaro is an American stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actress. Her acclaimed album Live was nominated in 2014 for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The special Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted was nominated in 2016 at the 68th ...

90. Zawe Ashton

Actress | Velvet Buzzsaw

Zawe Ashton is an actor, writer and director.

Her role as Vod in Channel 4's "Fresh Meat" won her a cult following, and the diversity of her work across television, film, and stage has attracted numerous accolades and awards.

Most recently, Zawe starred on Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival...

91. Kerry Ehrin

Producer | The Morning Show

Kerry Ehrin is known for The Morning Show (2019), Bates Motel (2013) and Friday Night Lights (2006).

92. Marta Kauffman

Writer | Friends

Marta Kauffman was born on September 21, 1956 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Friends (1994), Dream On (1990) and Grace and Frankie (2015). She was previously married to Michael Skloff.

93. Shonda Rhimes

Producer | Grey's Anatomy

Shonda Lynn Rhimes is an African-American producer, author and screenwriter. She is known for working on the Britney Spears and Zoe Saldana film Crossroads, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Private Practice, the Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and the Halle ...

94. Nahnatchka Khan

Director | Always Be My Maybe

Nahnatchka Khan was born on June 17, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Always Be My Maybe (2019), Totally Killer (2023) and Fresh Off the Boat (2015). She has been married to Julia Bicknell since November 2019.

95. Michelle King

Writer | The Good Wife

Michelle King was born on May 11, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for The Good Wife (2009), Evil (2019) and The Good Fight (2017). She is married to Robert King.

96. Amy Sherman-Palladino

Producer | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

An only child, Amy Sherman-Palladino is daughter to comedian Don Sherman & dancer Maybin Hewes.

Originally a dancer herself, Palladino had initially received a callback to the musical Cats, while also having a possible writing position on the staff of Roseanne in rotation. When she and writing ...

97. Tina Fey

Actress | Date Night

Elizabeth Stamatina Fey was born in 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, to Xenobia "Jeanne" (Xenakes), a brokerage employee, and Donald Henry Fey, who wrote grant proposals for universities. Her mother is Greek, born in Piraeus, while her father had German, Northern Irish,...

98. Ann Biderman

Writer | NYPD Blue

Ann Biderman was born on August 15, 1951. She is a writer and producer, known for NYPD Blue (1993), Copycat (1995) and Ray Donovan (2013).

99. Diane English

Writer | Murphy Brown

Diane English was born on May 18, 1948 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Murphy Brown (1988), The Women (2008) and Double Rush (1995). She was previously married to Joel Shukovsky.

100. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Producer | The Witcher

She's American TV producer and Screenwriter, born in Ohio and graduated from Wittenberg University, in 2000 with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. She has written scripts for TV such as "The West Wing", "Justice", as well as has written and produced shows such as "Daredevil", "...