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Shonda Lynn Rhimes[1] (born January 13, 1970)[2] is an American television screenwriter, producer, and author. She is best known as the showrunner—creator, head writer, and executive producer—of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal. Rhimes has also served as the executive producer of the ABC television series Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, and Grey's spin-off Station 19.[3]

Shonda Rhimes
At the 75th Annual Peabody Awards, 2016
Born	Shonda Lynn Rhimes (1970-01-13) January 13, 1970 (age 52) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Dartmouth College University of Southern California
Occupation	Television screenwriter producer
Years active	1995–present
Children	3

In 2007, 2013 and 2021, Rhimes was named by Time on the Time 100, their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[4][5] In 2015, she published her first book, a memoir, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person. In 2017, Netflix said that it had entered into a multi-year development deal with Rhimes, by which all of her future productions will be Netflix Original series.[6] Netflix had already purchased the streaming rights to past episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.[7]

Early life and education

Rhimes was born in Chicago, Illinois, as the youngest of six children of Vera P. (née Cain), a college professor, and Ilee Rhimes, Jr., a university administrator.[8][9] Her mother attended college while raising their six children and earned a PhD in educational administration in 1991. Her father, who holds an MBA, became chief information officer (CIO) at the University of Southern California, serving until 2013.[10]

Rhimes lived in Park Forest South (now University Park, Illinois), with her two older brothers and three older sisters. She has said she exhibited an early affinity for storytelling.[11] While in high school, she served as a hospital volunteer, which inspired an interest in hospital environments.[12]

Rhimes attended Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. At Dartmouth College, she majored in English and film studies and earned her bachelor's degree in 1991.[13][14] At Dartmouth, she joined the Black Underground Theater Association. She divided her time between directing and performing in student productions, and writing fiction.[13]

She also wrote for the college newspaper.[15] After college, she relocated to San Francisco with an older sibling and worked in advertising at McCann Erickson.[16] She subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California and study screenwriting.[11] Ranked at the top of her USC class, Rhimes earned the Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship.[16] She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

While at USC, Rhimes was hired as an intern by Debra Martin Chase. Rhimes credits her early success, in part, to mentors such as Chase, a prominent African-American producer. She also worked at Denzel Washington's company, Mundy Lane Entertainment.[17] Chase served as a mentor to Rhimes: they worked together on The Princess Diaries 2.

Career

Career beginnings: 1995–2004

After graduation, Rhimes was an unemployed scriptwriter in Hollywood.[11] To make ends meet, Rhimes worked at a variety of day jobs, including as an office administrator and then a counselor at a job center that taught job skills to people with housing instability and mental illness. During this period, Rhimes worked as research director on the documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995), which won the 1995 Peabody Award.[11][16] In 1998 Rhimes made a short film, Blossoms and Veils, starring Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jeffrey Wright, which is her only credit as a film director.[11] New Line Cinema purchased a feature script of hers. Rhimes received an assignment to co-write the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). It earned numerous awards for its star, Halle Berry.[11][16]

In 2001, Rhimes wrote Crossroads, the debut film of pop singer Britney Spears.[18] Despite being panned by critics, the film grossed more than $60 million worldwide.[19][20]

Rhimes next worked on writing Disney's sequel to its popular movie The Princess Diaries (2001). Although The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) did not score as well at the box office, Rhimes later said that she treasured the experience, if only for the opportunity to work with its star, Julie Andrews.[11] In 2003, Rhimes wrote her first TV pilot for ABC about young female war correspondents, but the network turned it down.[16][17]

Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal and other projects with ABC

Rhimes is the creator and currently executive producer and head writer of Grey's Anatomy. The series debuted as a mid-season replacement on March 27, 2005. The series features the surgical staff at the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital (later to be named Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital), in Seattle, Washington. The series features an ensemble cast with Ellen Pompeo serving as titular character Meredith Grey, who provides narration for a majority of the series' episodes.[21]

In 2007, Rhimes created and produced the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice, which debuted September 26, 2007, on ABC. The show chronicled the life of Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as she left Seattle Grace Hospital for Los Angeles to join a private practice. The series also featured an ensemble cast, including Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman, Audra McDonald and Taye Diggs among others. The first season was shortened because of a writers' strike; it has nine episodes. In May 2012, ABC picked up Private Practice for the 2012–13 television season with 13 episodes. The series finale was aired January 22, 2013.[22]

In 2010, Rhimes created a new pilot for ABC called Inside the Box, a female-centric ensemble drama set in a Washington, D.C. network news bureau. The lead character was Catherine, an ambitious female news producer who, with her colleagues, pursued "the story" at all costs while juggling their personal animosities and crises of conscience.[23] It was not picked up by the network.[24]

In 2011, Rhimes served as executive producer for the medical drama, Off the Map, which was created by Grey's Anatomy writer, Jenna Bans. It focused on a group of doctors who practice medicine at a remote clinic in the Amazon jungle.[25] The series was officially cancelled by the ABC network on May 13, 2011.[26]

In May 2011, ABC ordered Rhimes' pilot script Scandal to series. Kerry Washington stars as Olivia Pope, a political crisis management expert. The character is partially based on former Bush administration press aide Judy Smith.[27][28] The series debut aired on April 5, 2012.[29]

In 2012, Rhimes developed a pilot for a period drama, Gilded Lilys, but it was not picked up to series.[30][31]

In December 2013, ABC ordered a pilot for a new Rhimes series, How to Get Away with Murder.[32] Actress Viola Davis joined the cast as the lead character in February 2014.[33] It was officially picked up to series on May 8, 2014.[34]

In March 2016, ABC premiered The Catch, a comedy-drama led by Rhimes based on a treatment by British author Kate Atkinson. It starred Mireille Enos and Peter Krause.[35] Later that month, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder and Grey's Anatomy were respectively picked up for their sixth, third and 13th seasons. The following year, it was announced that Scandal would conclude after its upcoming seventh season, while The Catch was cancelled after its second.[36]

Netflix deal

On August 14, 2017, Netflix announced that it had entered into an exclusive multi-year development deal with Rhimes, under which all of her future productions will be Netflix Original series. The service already had purchased U.S. streaming rights to past episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos described Rhimes as being a "true Netflixer at heart" since "she loves TV and films, she cares passionately about her work, and she delivers for her audience".[36]

Of the deal, Rhimes said that

[Sarandos] understood what I was looking for—the opportunity to build a vibrant new storytelling home for writers with the unique creative freedom and instantaneous global reach provided by Netflix's singular sense of innovation. The future of Shondaland at Netflix has limitless possibilities.[36]

The deal was considered to be a coup for Netflix due to Rhimes' prominence at ABC; it was also considered to be a counter toward the effort by Disney, ABC's parent company, to reduce the availability of their content on Netflix in favor of a planned subscription streaming service of their own.[36]

As of October 2020 she was working on more than 12 projects for Netflix, including the period drama Bridgerton.[37]

Personal life

Rhimes adopted her first daughter in June 2002 and adopted another girl in February 2012.[38] In September 2013, Rhimes welcomed her third daughter via gestational surrogacy.[39]

In 2014, Rhimes gave a commencement address at her alma mater, Dartmouth College, where she received an honorary doctorate.[40]

In September 2015, Rhimes revealed she had lost 117 pounds via exercise and dieting.[41][42]

Activism

In April 2017, Rhimes joined the national board of Planned Parenthood.[43] Later that same year, Rhimes and Katie McGrath co-founded Time's Up, and both of them donated the funds to hire its first seven employees.[44]

In 2019 Shonda Rhimes joined the organization When We All Vote as a co-chair.[45] This organization was founded to get out the vote prior to the 2020 general election.

Shondaland

Shondaland is the name of Rhimes's production company.[46] Shondaland and its logo also refer to the shows Rhimes has produced[47] and to Rhimes herself. Shows included in Shondaland are:

• Grey's Anatomy (2005–present)
• Private Practice (2007–2013)
• Off the Map (2011)
• Scandal (2012–2018)
• How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020)
• The Catch (2016–2017)
• Still Star-Crossed (2017)
• For the People (2018–2019)
• Station 19 (2018–present)
• Bridgerton (2020–present)
• Inventing Anna (2022)

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as
		Creator	Director	Writer	Producer
1995	Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream	No	Yes[48]	No	No
1998	Blossoms and Veils	No	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	No	No	Yes	No
2002	Crossroads	No	No	Yes	No
2004	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement	No	No	Yes	No
2005–present	Grey's Anatomy	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2007–2013	Private Practice	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2009	Inside the Box	No	No	No	Yes
2009	Seattle Grace: On Call	Yes	No	No	Yes
2009	Seattle Grace: Message of Hope	Yes	No	No	Yes
2011	Off the Map	No	No	No	Yes
2012	Gilded Lilys	No	No	No	Yes
2012–2018	Scandal	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2014–2020	How to Get Away with Murder	No	No	No	Yes
2016–2017	The Catch	No	No	No	Yes
2017	Still Star-Crossed	No	No	No	Yes
2018–2019	For the People	No	No	No	Yes
2018–present	Station 19	No	No	No	Yes
2020–present	Bridgerton	No	No	No	Yes
2022	Inventing Anna	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
TBA	Notes on Love[49]	TBA	TBA	Yes	Yes

Bibliography

• Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person, November 2015. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1476777092. OCLC 1026348497.

Essays and reporting

• "Scoop Dreams". Work for Hire. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 32. October 10, 2016. p. 64.[50]

Awards and nominations

Shonda Rhimes has won a Golden Globe Award and been nominated for four Emmy Awards. She has also won awards from the Writers Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, and Directors Guild of America. Below is a more complete list.

Banff Television Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2011	Best Continuing Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated	[51]

Black Reel Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement	Nominated	[51]

Directors Guild of America Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2014	DGA Diversity Award	Shonda Rhimes	Won	[51]

GLAAD Media Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2012	Golden Gate Award	Shonda Rhimes	Won	[51]

Primetime Emmy Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	Outstanding Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated	[51]
	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series		Nominated
2007	Outstanding Drama Series		Nominated
2021	Outstanding Drama Series	Bridgerton	Nominated

NAACP Image Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2006	Outstanding Drama Series	Grey's Anatomy	Won	[51]
2007			Won
2008			Won
2009			Won
2010			Nominated
2011			Won
2013			Nominated
		Scandal	Nominated
2015	Entertainer of the Year	Shonda Rhimes	Nominated
2016			Nominated

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	Television Series - Drama	Grey's Anatomy	Nominated	[51]
2006	Television Series - Drama		Won
2007	Television Series - Drama		Nominated
2021	Television Series - Drama	Bridgerton	Nominated

Writers Guild of America Award

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2005	New Series	Grey's Anatomy	Won	[51]
	Dramatic Series		Nominated
2006			Nominated
2015	Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement	Shonda Rhimes	Won

References

External links

• Shonda Rhimes at IMDb

This section's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. (January 2018)

• Shonda Rhimes at TED
• 'Grey Matter' Writer's Blog on ABC.com
• Interview with Shonda Rhimes on The Tavis Smiley Show
• Writers Guild of America profile
• NYTimes profile, September 18, 2014
• Shonda Rhimes Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America

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[de] Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes (* 13. Januar 1970 in Chicago) ist eine US-amerikanische Drehbuchautorin und Produzentin von Fernsehserien. Sie produzierte die Ärzte-/Krankenhausserien Grey’s Anatomy, deren Spin-off Private Practice und die politische Thrillerserie Scandal. Außerdem produzierte sie die Serie How to Get Away with Murder und die Netflixserie Bridgerton.

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[es] Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Lynn Rhimes (Chicago, Illinois, 13 de enero de 1970) es una guionista, directora y productora estadounidense. Es conocida principalmente por ser la creadora de la serie de televisión Grey's Anatomy, por la que ganó en 2007 el Globo de Oro a Mejor serie de televisión dramática. También es la creadora de su spin-off, Private Practice. En mayo de 2007, fue nombrada una de las 100 personas más influyentes según la revista Time.[1] Su padre era administrador en la Universidad de Chicago y su madre, profesora. Asistió a la Universidad de Darmouth y, años después, hizo un máster de bellas artes en la Universidad del Sur de California.

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[ru] Раймс, Шонда

Шонда Раймс (англ. Shonda Rhimes; р. 13 января 1970, Чикаго) — американская сценарист, режиссёр и продюсер, глава производственной студии ShondaLand. Она наиболее известна как создатель популярных телесериалов «Анатомия страсти» и его спин-оффа «Частная практика». В мае 2007 года Раймс была включена в список Time 100 в качестве одной из людей, которые помогают формировать мир[1]. Она трижды была номинирована на премию «Эмми», а также получила награды «Гильдии продюсеров Америки» и «Гильдии сценаристов Америки» и выиграла пять премий NAACP[2]. С 2012 по 2018 года Раймс также выпускала политический сериал «Скандал», с 2014 года — «Как избежать наказания за убийство», с 2016 года — «Улов».

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