Female Emmy Winners/Nominees for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
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Gloria Steinem was born on 25 March 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for The First Wives Club (1996), V for Vendetta (2005) and The Good Wife (2009). She was previously married to David Bale.Nominee for That Was The Week That Was (1965)- Writer
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Ellen M. Violett was born on 7 April 1925 in New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Closed Set (1988), CBS Playhouse (1967) and The United States Steel Hour (1953). She died on 13 February 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.Nominee for CBS Playhouse (1969)- Producer
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Joanna Lee was born on 7 April 1931 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) and CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984). She was married to Meyer Gerard Kaplan. She died on 24 October 2003 in Santa Monica, California, USA.Winner for The Waltons (1974)- Additional Crew
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Winner for Lou Grant (1979)
Nominee for Lou Grant (1980)
Nominee for L.A. Law (1989 x2)- Writer
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Barbara Corday was born on 15 October 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for American Dream (1981), The Office (1995) and Cagney & Lacey (1981). She was previously married to Barney Rosenzweig, Noah Keen and Michael Gershman.Nominee for American Dream (1980)- Additional Crew
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April Smith is known for Mrs. America (2020), Cagney & Lacey (1981) and Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006).Nominee for Lou Grant (1980)- Writer
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Karen Hall was born on 2 June 1956 in Chatham, Virginia, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), Moonlighting (1985) and M*A*S*H (1972). She has been married to Chris Walker since 1 May 1999. They have four children. She was previously married to Sheldon Bull.Nominee for Hill Street Blues (1983 x2, 1984, 1987)- Producer
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Won for Cagney & Lacey (1985)
Nominated for L.A. Law (1991)- Writer
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Deborah Arakelian is known for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Quantum Leap (1989).Nominee for Cagney & Lacey (1985)- Writer
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Debra Frank is known for Moonlighting (1985), The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) and Diff'rent Strokes (1978).Nominee for Moonlighting (1986)- Additional Crew
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Sarah Woodside Gallagher is known for L.A. Law (1986), The Division (2001) and Man with a Gun (1995).Nominee for L.A. Law (1991)- Producer
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Ann Lewis Hamilton is known for Thirtysomething (1987), Grey's Anatomy (2005) and The Dead Zone (2002).Nominee for Thirtysomething (1991)- Producer
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Diane Frolov is known for Northern Exposure (1990), The Sopranos (1999) and Boardwalk Empire (2010).Winner for Northern Exposure (1992)- Writer
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Nominee for Northern Exposure (1992)
Nominee for The Sopranos (1999, 2000, 2003, 2004)
Winner for The Sopranos (2001, 2003)- Writer
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Ann Biderman was born on 15 August 1951. She is a writer and producer, known for NYPD Blue (1993), Copycat (1995) and Primal Fear (1996).Winner for NYPD Blue (1994)- Producer
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Winnie Holzman was born on 18 August 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for My So-Called Life (1994), Jerry Maguire (1996) and Thirtysomething (1987). She has been married to Paul Dooley since 18 November 1984. They have one child.Nominee for My So-Called Life (1995)- Producer
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Meredith Stiehm was born on 29 March 1968 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Meredith is a producer and writer, known for Homeland (2011), NYPD Blue (1993) and ER (1994).Nominee for NYPD Blue (1998)- Producer
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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 Berry film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She has three children.Nominee for Grey's Anatomy (2006)- Producer
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Krista Vernoff was born on 24 October 1971 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Grey's Anatomy (2005), Shameless (2011) and Charmed (1998). She has been married to Alexandre Schmitt since 2018. They have three children.Nominee for Grey's Anatomy (2006)- Writer
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Michelle King was born on 11 May 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.Nominee for The Good Wife (2010, 2016)- Producer
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Veena Sud was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Veena is a producer and writer, known for The Killing (2011), The Salton Sea (2016) and Seven Seconds (2018).Nominee for The Killing (2011)- Producer
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Moira Walley-Beckett is known for Breaking Bad (2008), Anne with an E (2017) and Flesh and Bone (2015).Winner for Breaking Bad (2014)- Producer
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Marti Noxon was born on 25 August 1964 in California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), Sharp Objects (2018) and To the Bone (2017).Nominee for UnREAL (2016)- Producer
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One of 8 women chose to participate in AFI's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women Shapiro wrote and directed "Sequin Raze" which went on to win honors at SXSW, New Directors New Films MoMA/ Lincoln Center and Palm Springs. After several networks showed interest in developing SR into a series, Lifetime acquired and optioned it and Shapiro wrote to pilot with Marti Noxon (Mad Men, Fright Night.) Pilot slated to shoot 2013.Nominee for UnREAL (2016)- Producer
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Lisa Joy was born in New Jersey. Her writing career began on the ABC show Pushing Daisies. In 2011, she joined the staff of Burn Notice as a co-producer. She is co-creator and executive producer of the HBO show Westworld. Her spec script, Reminiscence, was on the Black List in 2013 and is in development at Legendary.Nominee for Westworld (2017)- Actress
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Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-2019). She was also the show-runner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller series Killing Eve (2018).
For Fleabag, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, as well as three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Comedy Series. Both Fleabag and Killing Eve have been named among the greatest television series of the 21st century by The Guardian.
Waller-Bridge starred in the comedy series The Café (2011-2013) and the crime drama series Broadchurch (2015). She also appeared in films, including Albert Nobbs (2011), The Iron Lady (2011), and Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017), and played the droid L3-37 in the Star Wars anthology prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). She co-wrote the screenplay for the 25th James Bond film, titled No Time to Die (2020).
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born to Theresa Mary (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge. Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father's side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge grew up in Ealing, London, and has a younger brother named Jasper, a music manager, and an older sister named Isobel Waller-Bridge, a composer who wrote the music for Fleabag. Her parents are divorced. She was educated at St Augustine's Priory, a Catholic independent school for girls, followed by the independent sixth form college DLD College London in Marylebone, London. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.Nominee for Killing Eve (2018)- Writer
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Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period drama films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), The Danish Girl (2015), and Vita and Virginia (2018). She went on to receive wider recognition for her starring roles in the BBC One period drama series Call the Midwife (2013-17) and for her portrayal of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in the Netflix period drama series The Crown (2019-20).Nominee for Killing Eve (2019)- Producer
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Kira Snyder is known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), The 100 (2014) and Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018).Nominee for The Handmaid's Tale (2019)- Writer
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Misha Green was born on 22 September 1984 in Sacramento, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Lovecraft Country (2020), The Mother (2023) and Underground (2016).Nominee for Lovecraft Country (2021)- Producer
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Janet Mock is a writer, director and executive producer for the FX series "Pose" and the Netflix limited series "Hollywood." She's also the New York Times bestselling and trailblazing author of two memoirs, Redefining Realness (2014) and Surpassing Certainty (2017) about her journey as a trans woman.
Janet has received Harvard University's Artist of the Year Award in 2019 and was named on of The Hollywood Reporter's "Women in Entertainment Power 100" and included on Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list -- adding to her Peabody Award, Television Academy Honors, two AFI Awards and Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for "Pose."
Onscreen, she appeared in Jay-Z's music video for "Family Feud," directed by Ava DuVernay, and guest-starred in Alex Garland's FX on Hulu limited series, DEVS. She will make her feature directorial debut with the Sammy Davis-Kim Novak film, "Scandalous." She lives and writes in New York City.Nominee for Pose (2021)- Producer
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Our Lady J is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer, best-known for her writing on Pose, Transparent, and American Horror Story. Before Lady J's career in television, she toured the world performing as a singer/songwriter, as well as a collaborative pianist and musical director for pop, theatre, and classical music (Sia, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, among others). Our Lady J holds the honor of being the first out trans woman to perform at Carnegie Hall, as well as the first out trans writer to be hired in a television writers room. She has received two Peabody Awards, three American Film Institute awards, three Writers Guild Award nominations and two NAACP Image Award nominations. As a producer, her shows have garnered a combined total of 48 Emmy nominations, 12 Emmy wins, 13 Golden Globe nominations, 3 Golden Globe wins, 20 Critics' Choice nominations, and 3 Critics' Choice wins, among others.Nominee for Pose (2021)- Writer
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Ashley Lyle is known for Yellowjackets (2021), Narcos: Mexico (2018) and Narcos (2015). She is married to Bart Nickerson.Nominee for Yellowjackets (2022 x2)- Actress
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Sharon Lorencia Horgan is an Irish actress, writer, director, comedian and producer. She is best known for the comedy series Pulling (2006-2009) and Catastrophe (2015-2019), both of which she starred in and co-wrote. She also created the HBO comedy series Divorce (2016-2019).
Horgan won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best TV Actress for Pulling, while the show's 2009 hour-long final episode won the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Drama. A seven-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Writer for Catastrophe (with Rob Delaney). Catastrophe was also nominated for Scripted Comedy in the 2020 BAFTA TV Awards and for the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She has also won five Irish Film and Television Awards in both acting and writing for her work on Catastrophe. Horgan also won the 2021 Irish Film and Television Award in the category of Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Dating Amber (2020).
Horgan has appeared in the films Valiant (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Man Up (2015), and Game Night (2018), Military Wives (2019), Dating Amber (2020), and BBC Two film Together (2021).Nominee for Bad Sisters (2023)