Biography for
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

15 April 1947, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA

Birth Name

Linda Joyce Bloodworth

Mini Biography

Television producer and writer, usually developing TV shows for strong female characters.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Hamel

Spouse

Harry Thomason

(23 July 1983 - present)

Trivia

Her first TV script was co-written with Mary Kay Place for the TV series "M*A*S*H" (1972).

When developing the series, "Designing Women" (1986), she wrote the scripts for the first 35 episodes.

In 1989, she set up the Claudia Company (a foundation named after her mother) to provide accelerated educational programs for high school girls in Missouri and Arkansas.

She and her husband head the production company Mozark Productions.

Linda and her husband became the unofficial media advisers for Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, an old friend, during his run for the presidency in 1992. Linda produced the documentary film on Clinton, The Man from Hope (1992) (TV), shown at the Democratic National Convention in July 1992, and suggested that Clinton walk from the basement of Macy's, in Manhattan, to Madison Square Garden, the site of the convention, on the night of his nomination.