Shonda Rhimes is an American television producer, television and film writer, 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, and The Catch. In 2007, Rhimes was named one of TIME magazine's 100 People Who Help Shape the World. 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. Shonda Rhimes has won a Golden Globe award and was nominated for three Emmy Awards. She has also won awards from the Writer's Guild of America, Producer's Guild of America, and Director's Guild of America. Below is a more complete list.
Shonda Rhimes 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 was born as Shonda Lynn Rhimes in Chicago, Illinois, US as the youngest of six children of Vera P. (Cain), a college professor, and Ilee Rhimes(mother), Jr., a university administrator. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is black. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Capricorn. Rhimes grew up in Park Forest South (now University Park, Illinois), with her two older brothers and three older sisters. She exhibited an early affinity for storytelling and wrote stories for the college newspaper in her college days. Rhimes attended Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. she majored in English and film studies and earned her bachelor's degree in 1991 at Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, she joined the Black Underground Theater Association. She divided her time between directing and performing in student productions and writing fiction. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She got her alma mater at Dartmouth College in 2014. Rhimes also attend the University of Southern California and study screenwriting.
While attending at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Rhimes began her directing and screenwriting career as an intern working under, prominent big heads, Debra Martin Chase and Denzel Washington's company, Mundy Lane Entertainment. After graduation, Rhimes worked as a research director in the documentary, Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995), which won the 1995 Peabody Award. 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. Rhimes received an assignment to co-write the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). It earned numerous awards for its star, Halle Berry. In 2001, Rhimes wrote Crossroads, the film grossed more than $60 million worldwide and Disney's sequel to its popular movie, The Princess Diaries (2001).
Rhimes breakthrough came in 2005 after she became the creator and currently executive producer and head writer of Grey's Anatomy produced from her own company Shondaland. The series debuted as a mid-season replacement on March 27, 2005. Rhimes created and produced the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice, which debuted September 26, 2007, on ABC. In May 2011, ABC ordered Rhimes' pilot script Scandal to series. The series debut aired on April 5, 2012. In December 2013, ABC ordered a pilot for a new Rhimes series, How to Get Away with Murder. In March 2016, ABC premiered The Catch, a comedy-drama led by Rhimes. 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.
In June 2018, Netflix announced that the first project under the deal will be an adaptation of the New York magazine story How Anna Delvey. In 2015, she published her first book, a memoir, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Person. Shonda Rhimes has won a Golden Globe award and was nominated for three Emmy Awards. She has also won awards from the Writer's Guild of America, Producer's Guild of America, and Director's Guild of America. Below is a more complete list.
As of 2020, There is no information regarding her relationship or his husband. All that is known is, she has adopted three children with whom she is happily spending her spare time. Rhimes adopted her first daughter, Harper Rhimes in June 2002 and adopted another girl, Emerson Pearl Rhimes in February 2012. In September 2013, Rhimes welcomed her third daughter, Beckett Rhimes via gestational surrogacy.
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