Female Emmy Winners/Nominees for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
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Madelyn Davis was born on 15 March 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for I Love Lucy (1951), The Tom Ewell Show (1960) and Yours, Mine & Ours (2005). She was married to Dr. Richard Merrill Davis and Quinn Martin. She died on 20 April 2011 in Bel-Air, California, USA.Nominee for I Love Lucy (1955, 1956)
Nominee for Here's Lucy (1971)- Actress
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Most familiar to TV audiences as the diminutive but feisty court bailiff on Night Court (1984), Selma Diamond's entrance into acting was not through the usual venue of vaudeville, stage work or modeling - she was a writer for TV shows, once having been nominated for an Emmy for Caesar's Hour (1954). Although she had that tough New York accent and street demeanor, she was actually born in London, Ontario, Canada, then raised in Brooklyn. A graduate of New York University, she at first made a living by selling cartoons and fiction to the "New Yorker" magazine. NBC hired her as a writer for one of its radio shows, "The Big Show," and she later made the transition into writing for television. Her film debut was as the voice on the telephone of Spencer Tracy's wife in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), where the world got a sample of the distinctive Diamond voice: nasal, high-pitched and one that could never be mistaken for anyone else's. She did a lot of TV work and was a regular on another series, Too Close for Comfort (1980) before Night Court (1984). She died due to lung cancer in 1985.Nominee for Caesar's Hour (1956)- Dorothy Cooper was born on 30 September 1911 in Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. She was a writer, known for Father Knows Best (1954), On an Island with You (1948) and Rich, Young and Pretty (1951). She died on 26 November 2004 in Palm Desert, California, USA.Nominee for Father Knows Best (1960)
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Ruth Brooks Flippen was born on 14 September 1921 in New York, USA. Ruth Brooks was a writer, known for That Girl (1966), The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (1972) and Love Is Better Than Ever (1952). Ruth Brooks was married to Jay C. Flippen. Ruth Brooks died on 9 July 1981 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.Nominee for That Girl (1968)- Writer
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Gail Parent was born in 1940 in the USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Tracey Takes On... (1996), The Golden Girls (1985) and The Carol Burnett Show (1967).Nominee for The Carol Burnett Show (1969)- Judith Viorst was born on 2 February 1931 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is a writer, known for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. She has been married to Milton Viorst since 30 January 1960. They have three children.Winner for Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970)
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Treva Silverman was born on 20 May 1936 in the USA. She is a writer and producer, known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), Captain Nice (1967) and That Girl (1966).Winner for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1974)- Writer
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Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was born on 15 April 1947 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Designing Women (1986), Bridegroom (2013) and Evening Shade (1990). She has been married to Harry Thomason since 23 July 1983.Nominee for M*A*S*H (1974)
Nominee for Designing Women (1988)- Actress
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Mary Kay Place (born September 23, 1947) is an American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter. She is known for portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a role that won her the 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series. Her numerous film appearances include Private Benjamin (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Captain Ron (1992) and Francis Ford Coppola's 1997 drama The Rainmaker. Place also recorded three studio albums for Columbia Records, one in the Haggers persona, which included the Top Ten country music hit "Baby Boy." For her performance in Diane (2018), Place won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.Nominee for M*A*S*H (1974)- Writer
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Anne Beatts was born on 25 February 1947 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Square Pegs (1982) and Funny Boys. She died on 7 April 2021 in West Hollywood, California, USA.Nominee for Saturday Night Live (1979)- Writer
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Rosie Shuster was born on 19 June 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer and actress, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980) and The Larry Sanders Show (1992). She was previously married to Lorne Michaels.Nominee for Saturday Night Live (1979)
Nominee for The Larry Sanders Show (1993)- Producer
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Holly Holmberg Brooks' early credits include Emmy-nominated script writing for "Taxi" and "The Tracey Ullman Show." She has received credit for several Academy Award winning and nominated feature films including, "Terms of Endearment," "Broadcast News," "Jerry Maguire" and "As Good As It Gets." Last season she produced "Liberty's Kids" for PBS.Nominee for Taxi (1982)- Writer
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Susan Harris was born on 28 October 1940 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Soap (1977), The Golden Girls (1985) and It Takes Two (1982). She was previously married to Paul Junger Witt and Berkeley Harris.Nominee for The Golden Girls (1986)- Producer
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Janet Leahy, executive producer and showrunner, is a name often associated with prestige television. Ms. Leahy spent the past fifteen years writing and producing one hour television dramas, including "Mad Men," "Boston Legal" and "Gilmore Girls," for which she has received six Emmy nominations, two Writers' Guild Awards and a Peabody Award for best drama.
Ms. Leahy's career began in comedy, writing and producing "Cheers," "The Cosby Show," "Newhart," and "Roseanne," among many others. Ms. Leahy returned to comedy as consulting producer for HBO's "Crashing." To date, Ms. Leahy has produced and written over three hundred hours of quality television. She is currently developing a one hour comedy/drama "No Offense" for Showtime with "Shameless" creator Paul Abbott.Nominee for Cheers (1987)- Writer
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Diane English was born on 18 May 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.Winner for Murphy Brown (1989)
Nominee for Murphy Brown (1990, 1991, 1992)- Writer
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Elaine Pope was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is known for Seinfeld (1989), Alfie (2004) and Not Necessarily the News (1982).Winner for Seinfeld (1992)- Writer
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Marta Kauffman was born on 21 September 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.Nominee for Dream On (1993)- Producer
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Maya Forbes was born on 23 July 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for The Larry Sanders Show (1992), Infinitely Polar Bear (2014) and Monsters vs. Aliens (2009). She has been married to Wallace Wolodarsky since 2004. They have two children.Nominee for The Larry Sanders Show (1994, 1996)- Producer
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Linda Morris is known for Multiple Sarcasms (2010), Amazing Racer (2009) and Intimate Portrait (1990).Winner for Frasier (1996)- Producer
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Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres. Her parents divorced when she was 16 years old. Her mother remarried, and her new husband, salesman Roy Gruessendorf, moved the family to Atlanta, Texas.
After graduating from Atlanta High School in 1976, Ellen attended the University of New Orleans as a communications major, but she dropped out after one semester. She held a wide variety of jobs until she turned to stand-up comedy, making her bones at small clubs and coffeehouses before working her way up to emcee Clyde's Comedy Club by 1981. Her comedy was described as a distaff version of Bob Newhart. Beginning in the early 1980s, she toured nationally and was named the funniest person in America after winning a competition sponsored by the cable network Showtime. This led to better gigs, including her first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) in 1986.
Though DeGeneres's early forays into series television were not successful (she appeared as a supporting player in two short-lived TV situation comedies in the period 1989-92, Open House (1989) and Laurie Hill (1992)), she scored a hit headlining her own 1994 sitcom on ABC "These Friends of Mine" (renamed Ellen (1994) after its first season). She made TV history in April 1997, when her character, and DeGeneres personally, revealed that she was a lesbian. However, the show was canceled the following season due to declining ratings, after which DeGeneres returned to the stand-up circuit. In 2001, DeGeneres launched a new series, The Ellen Show (2001), on CBS, but it suffered from poor ratings and was canceled.
Redemption as a television artist came in 2003, when DeGeneres's daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), proved to be both a critical hit and a commercial success. Along with good ratings, the show has won unprecedented kudos from the industry, winning 15 Emmy Awards in its first three seasons on the air and becoming the first talk show in TV history to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show in its first three seasons.
DeGeneres has also made a name for herself as a host of awards shows. She hosted the Grammy Awards in 1996 and 1997, as well as the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001 and 2005. In February 2007, she had the ultimate TV awards show gig, hosting the Oscars, which she hosted again in 2014.Winner for Ellen (1997)- Writer
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Tracy Newman is a founding member of The Groundlings Improv Theatre, which is one of the main farm companies for SNL. In 1990, she and her then writing partner, Jonathan Stark, began a long TV writing/producing career. Their first staff job was on Cheers. After that, they worked on Bob, The Nanny, Ellen, The Drew Carey Show and Hiller and Diller. In 1997, they won both an Emmy and a Peabody award for co-writing the groundbreaking "coming out" episode of Ellen (Ellen DeGeneres' 90's sitcom.) In 2001 they created the long-running ABC TV show, According to Jim. Tracy retired from TV writing in 2003 and since then has been a fixture in the Los Angeles acoustic folk music scene. She's now a full-time singer/songwriter, doing shows for both adults and children. She has a new company called Run Along Home, focusing on age-appropriate lyrics for young kids. Tracy's CDs for adults include: A Place in the Sun, I Just See You and That's What Love Can Do to Your Heart. Her CDs for children are I Can Swing Forever, Shoebox Town, and soon to be released, Sing With Me. Websites: www.tracynewman.com and www.runalonghome.comWinner for Ellen (1997)- Producer
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Cindy Chupack is best known as a Writer/Executive Producer of Sex and the City, where several episodes she penned (Evolution, Attack of the 5'10" Woman, Just Say Yes, Plus One is the Loneliest Number, I Love a Charade, and Splat!) were individually nominated for Writer's Guild and Emmy awards. In 2018 she directed her first episode of television (I'm Dying Up Here: Now You See Me, Now You Don't), and her first feature, Otherhood, starring Angela Bassett, Felicity Huffman, and Patricia Arquette, which was released on Netflix August 2, 2019.
Chupack grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and received a journalism degree from Northwestern University. She is the author of New York Times bestseller "The Between Boyfriends Book: A Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays," Chupack has written comic essays about dating and relationships for many magazines including Glamour and O, The Oprah Magazine (where she had her own columns). Her comic memoir about marriage and a baby quest, "The Longest Date: Life as a Wife," was published by Viking in February 2014.Nominee for Sex and the City (2000, 2003)- Producer
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Jennifer Crittenden was born on 29 August 1969 in Laguna Beach, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Everybody Loves Raymond (1996), Veep (2012) and The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006). She is married to Bill Wrubel. They have two children.Nominee for Everybody Loves Raymond (2002)- Producer
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Julie Rottenberg is known for Sex and the City (1998), And Just Like That... (2021) and Odd Mom Out (2015).Nominee for Sex and the City (2002, 2004)- Producer
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Elisa Zuritsky was born in 1970 in the USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Sex and the City (1998), And Just Like That... (2021) and Odd Mom Out (2015). She has been married to Jordan Barowitz since 21 October 2006.Nominee for Sex and the City (2002, 2004)- Producer
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Barbie Adler is known for Arrested Development (2003), My Name Is Earl (2005) and Man Up! (2011). She is married to Justin Adler. They have three children.Nominee for Arrested Development (2005)- Writer
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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, and English ancestry. Going by the name of Tina, Fey considered herself a "supernerd" during her high school and college years. She studied drama at the University of Virginia, and after graduating in 1992, she headed to Chicago, the ancestral home of American comedy. While working at a YMCA to support herself, she started Second City's first set of courses. After about nine months, a teacher told her to just skip ahead and audition for the more selective Second City Training Center. She failed but about eight weeks later, she re-auditioned and got into the year-long program. She ended up spending many years at The Second City in Chicago where many SNL cast members first started out. Then in 1995, Saturday Night Live (1975) came to The Second City's cast, including Fey's friend, Adam McKay, as a writer, searching for new talent. What they found was Tina Fey. When Adam was made Head writer, he suggested Fey should send a submission packet over the summer with six sketches, 10 pages each. Tina took the advice and sent them. After Lorne Michaels met her and saw her work she was offered a job a week later. She admitted that she was extremely nervous working in the legendary Studio 8H; being a foot shorter than everyone else, younger, and being one of the only female writers at the time. After a few years, Tina made history by becoming the first female head writer in the show's history. Tina also made her screen debut as a featured player during the 25th season by co-anchoring Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon. Since Tina and Jimmy have taken over Weekend Update it has been considered the best ever. This year she made it to full fledged star by becoming a regular cast member, though she is hardly on the show, besides Update. And during the past two summers, Tina and Rachel Dratch performed their two-woman show to critical acclaim in both Chicago (1999) and New York (2000) and made their Aspen Comedy Festival Debut. Tina is married to Jeff Richmond, a Second City director and lives in New York City.Nominee for 30 Rock (2007, 2010)
Winner for 30 Rock (2008, 2013)- Producer
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Kay Cannon is a screenwriter, actress and producer, best known for Pitch Perfect (2012), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), and Pitch Perfect 3 (2017). She is also known for her work on NBC's 30 Rock (2006) and the Netflix Original Series Girlboss (2017).
Cannon has won three Writers Guild of America Awards and has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.Nominee for 30 Rock (2010)- Actress
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Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an Indian-American actress, comedienne, producer, writer and director from Cambridge, Massachusetts known for playing Kelly Kapoor in The Office, Disgust in Inside Out, and creating The Mindy Project. She also appeared in Wreck-It Ralph, Despicable Me, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Ocean's 8, and Monsters at Work. She has two children.Nominee for The Office (2010)- Producer
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New Yorker Lena Dunham is the daughter of a painter, Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, a designer and photographer. Dunham was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, graduating with a creative writing degree. It was while at Oberlin that she began writing shorts and feature films. In 2009, Dunham created the web series Delusional Downtown Divas (2009), which gained a cult following.
Also in 2009, Dunham released Creative Nonfiction (2009), her first feature film. She went on to write, direct and star in Tiny Furniture (2010), which scored two Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2012, Dunham came to the attention of a wider audience with the HBO series Girls (2012) created by and starring Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow.Nominee for Girls (2012)- Actress
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Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Amy was first involved with sketch comedy when she joined the group My Mother's Flea Bag when she was attending Boston College. In 1993, she went to Chicago where she studied at Second City and Improv Olympics. There, she met Del Close, who later became the voice of the UCB opening scene. In 1996, she joined the Upright Citizen's Brigade with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh. Later on, the group moved to New York and became a Comedy Central show. The show went on only for three seasons. However, the group stayed together at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater. Today, the theater is one of the leading centers for improv and sketch shows.
After the Upright Citizens Brigade (1998) sketch show came and went, Amy joined the cast of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 2001. By the end of Christmas break of that year, she became a regularly featured performer. She has brought a slew of great performances on every show, such as impersonations of celebrities such as Kelly Ripa or Sharon Osbourne. When Jimmy Fallon left at the end of the 2003-04 season, Amy joined Tina Fey as a co-anchor for Weekend Update. Her Hollywood star is also growing bright, as she has done several feature films, including Blades of Glory (2007) with her then-real-life husband and Arrested Development (2003) star Will Arnett; and the Farrelly brothers-directed remake of The Heartbreak Kid (1993), in which she stars alongside another Arrested Development (2003) star, Jason Bateman.
Among her 2010s film starring roles are Sisters (2015), with Tina Fey, and The House (2017), with Will Ferrell. Having played one of her first roles in the indie Wet Hot American Summer (2001), she reprised her role in the television mini-series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017).
Amy was married to Canadian actor and comedian Will Arnett from 2003 to 2016. The couple have two children.Nominee for Parks and Recreation (2012)
Nominee for Russian Doll (2019)- Producer
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Tracey Wigfield was born on 19 June 1983 in Wayne, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for 30 Rock (2006), Great News (2017) and The Mindy Project (2012). She has been married to Adam Countee since 21 May 2016.Winner for 30 Rock (2013)- Actress
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Pamela Adlon comes from an acting family and began her career in television in 1983. She has appeared in many popular TV shows, including as a voice actress in a number of animated TV series including, most famously, King of the Hill (1997) for which she won an Emmy for her role as Bobby Hill.Nominee for Louie (2013)- Producer
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Jenji Kohan was born on 5 July 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Weeds (2005) and Tracey Takes On... (1996). She was previously married to Christopher Noxon.Nominee for Orange Is the New Black (2014)- 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 Catastrophe (2016)- Producer
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Lena Waithe was born on 17 May 1984 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Master of None (2015), Ready Player One (2018) and Queen & Slim (2019). She has been married to Alana Mayo since November 2019.Winner for Master of None (2017)- Producer
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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 partner Jennifer Heath were asked to join Roseanne, she put behind her dancing career -- much to her mother's chagrin, -- and began writing for television.Winner for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2018)- Producer
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Nominee for Atlanta (2018)
Nominee for What We Do in the Shadows (2020, 2022)- 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.Winner for Fleabag (2019)- Actress
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Maya Erskine was born on 7 May 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for PEN15 (2019), Wine Country (2019) and Blue Eye Samurai (2023).Nominee for PEN15 (2019, 2021)- Actress
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Anna Konkle was born on 7 April 1987 in Vermont, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for PEN15 (2019), Rosewood (2015) and Plus One (2019).Nominee for PEN15 (2019)- Producer
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Leslye Headland was born on 26 November 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Bachelorette (2012), Sleeping with Other People (2015) and Russian Doll (2019). She has been married to Rebecca Henderson since 18 September 2016. They have one child.Nominee for Russian Doll (2019 2x)- Actress
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Natasha Lyonne is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated producer, actor, writer, and director.
Lyonne co-created Netflix series Russian Doll (2019), which received three Emmy awards, a total of 13 Emmy nominations including Comedy Series and Lead Actress for Lyonne, a Gotham Award nomination, and a Golden Globe acting nomination for Lyonne after premiering in 2019. She is showrunner and writes and directs for the series, in which she stars alongside Greta Lee, Charlie Barnett, and Chloë Sevigny.
Lyonne directed the October 2020 Netflix comedy special, Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020), a variety special dealing with issues of politics, race, gender, and class and featured Helen Mirren, Fred Armisen, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Hamm, Aubrey Plaza, Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, and Marisa Tomei, among others. In addition to directing, Lyonne executive-produced the special through Animal Pictures, her production company with Maya Rudolph and Danielle Renfrew Behrens. Animal Pictures is developing and producing a slate of original content, including the half-hour series Desert People, which Lyonne co-created with Alia Shawkat and Apple TV+'s upcoming comedy series starring Rudolph, created by Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard.
Lyonne portrayed Tallulah Bankhead opposite Andra Day in her Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning turn as legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels's The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). The biopic was released by Hulu in February 2021.
In 2019, Lyonne returned as Nicky Nichols in the seventh and final season of the Netflix original drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013), for which she also directed an episode. Lyonne directed and appeared in an episode of Comedy Central's Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020). She also directed an episode of Shrill (2019), starring Aidy Bryant, and an episode of Hulu series High Fidelity (2020), starring Zoë Kravitz.
Lyonne made her directorial debut with Kenzo short film Cabiria, Charity, Chastity (2017), featuring the Fall/Winter 2017 collection. She wrote the screenplay for the film, which stars Rudolph, Armisen, and Leslie Odom Jr., among others. In 2017, she produced and starred in IFC Midnight's Antibirth (2016), directed by Danny Perez, co-starring Sevigny. This independent farce horror hybrid, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, was released wide in the US in 2016, and released in the UK in 2017.
In 2014, Lyonne earned an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Orange Is the New Black (2013). Recent television credits include guest stints on Portlandia (2011), Girls (2012), Inside Amy Schumer (2013), The Simpsons (1989), and IFC's Documentary Now! (2015).
As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency and at the age of six, and she was cast as Opal on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986). She is well-known for her acclaimed performances in Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), the beloved comedy directed by Tamara Jenkins and co-starring Alan Arkin and Tomei; the coming-of age comedy But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), with Clea DuVall and RuPaul; and Everyone Says I Love You (1996). Additional film credits include The Grey Zone (2001), Sleeping with Other People (2015), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), Blade: Trinity (2004), Party Monster (2003), James Mangold's Kate & Leopold (2001), American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), Detroit Rock City (1999), A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), and Irresistible (2020).
On stage, Lyonne starred alongside Ethan Hawke in The New Group's darkly comic Off-Broadway production of Blood From a Stone, written by Tommy Nohilly and directed by Scott Elliott. Lyonne earned critical acclaim for her adept portrayal of the couch-ridden, heartbroken Grace in the Roundabout Theatre Company s production of Tigers Be Still, written by Kim Rosenstock and directed by Sam Gold. In 2019, Lyonne co-presented Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees with executive producer Mike Birbiglia. The comedy showed at the Cherry Lane Theatre and received rave reviews. Lyonne's other stage credits include roles in Love, Loss, and What I Wore, an intimate collection of monologues and stories by Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron, and the familial drama Two Thousand Years, directed by Scott Elliot and written by the legendary Mike Leigh.Nominee for Russian Doll (2019)- Writer
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Allison Silverman was born on 17 February 1972 in Gainesville, Florida, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015), Russian Doll (2019) and Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993). She has been married to Adrian Jones since 21 February 2009.Nominee for Russian Doll (2019)- Producer
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Lucia Aniello was born on 10 January 1983 in Italy. She is a producer and writer, known for Hacks (2021), Rough Night (2017) and Broad City (2014). She is married to Paul W. Downs. They have one child.Winner for Hacks (2021)
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Jen Statsky was born on 19 November 1985 in Milton, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Hacks (2021), The Good Place (2016) and Broad City (2014).Winner for Hacks (2021)
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Meredith Scardino is known for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015), Girls5eva (2021) and The Colbert Report (2005).Nominee for Girls5eva (2021)- Actress
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Quinta Brunson is a writer, actress and Stand-Up Comedian living in LA. Born and raised in Philadelphia PA, Quinta started studying comedy in Chicago at the Second City. She moved to LA in 2013. Her 2014 viral series "The Girl Who's Never Been on a Nice Date" launched her into viral fame, eventually leading her to a relationship with BuzzFeed Motion pictures. She now develops shows in traditional and digital entertainment and performs stand up around the country.Winner for Abbott Elementary (2022)- Writer
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Sarah Naftalis is known for What We Do in the Shadows (2019), They Came Together (2014) and Snarky Sidekick (2015).Nominee for What We Do in the Shadows (2022)- Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Sarah Schneider is known for The Other Two (2019), Saturday Night Live (1975) and Master of None (2015).Nominee for The Other Two (2023)