Full Name | Shonda Rhimes |
Net Worth | $17 Million |
Date Of Birth | January 13, 1970 |
Place Of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Occupation | Producer, screenwriter, director, dream killer |
Profession | Screenwriter, Television producer, Film producer, Author, Film director, Television Director |
Education | University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, Marian Catholic High School |
Nationality | American |
Children | Emerson Pearl Rhimes, Harper Rhimes, Beckett Rhimes |
Parents | Vera Rhimes, Ilee Rhimes |
Nicknames | Shonda Rhimes, Rhimes, Shonda |
Known For | Grey's Anatomy (2005), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Scandal (2012), Private Practice (2007) |
Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/ShondaRhimes |
Instagram | http://www.instagram.com/shondarhimes |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0722274 |
Awards | Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series, Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television, DGA Diversity Award, Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement, GLAAD Media Golden Gate Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series, Producers Guild of America Award - Norm... |
Nominations | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto-biography, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Ser... |
Movies | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Crossroads, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge |
TV Shows | Private Practice, Gilded Lilys, A corazón abierto, Off the Map, Seattle Grace: Message of Hope, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Inside the Box |
Star Sign | Capricorn |
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1 | A lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful,engaged people? Are busy doing. I wanted to be Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. That was my dream. I blue-skied it like crazy. I dreamed and dreamed. And while I was dreaming I was living in my sister's basement. Dreamers often end up living in the basement of relatives. |
2 | [on her role as a working mother] If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other. That is the trade-off. That is the Faustian bargain with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel one hundred percent okay. You never get your sea-legs. You are always a little nauseous. |
3 | Hashtags are very pretty on Twitter. I love them. I will hashtag my way into next week. But a hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Mr. King. It does not change anything. It's you,sitting on your butt, typing into your computer and then going back to binge-watching your favorite show. |
4 | It's superinsulting that because Olivia [in Scandal (2012)] is a woman, and the girl who wrote Grey's Anatomy (2005) wrote this, it must be for chicks. Like if it's geared for women, it's somehow not as serious as if it's geared for men. |
5 | [re her highly diverse, minority casting] I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that it's still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together. And, oh, by the way, it works. Ratings-wise, it works. When people who aren't of color create a show and they have one character of color on their show, that character spends all their time talking about the world as 'I'm a black man blah, blah, blah'. That's not how the world works. I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman. |
6 | I was writing a hospital show for a very long time, and that became all that anybody thought that I could write. It's not that I want to do [for example, a female-spy show] because people don't think of me as doing it, but when I do say that's what I want to do next, and some network exec says: 'Really? Can't you do one of your romance triangle-y things?' I want to strangle them. A romance triangle-y thing is not a show. |
7 | [re troubles with Grey's Anatomy (2005) cast where she had to learn...] how to be a boss and a leader versus somebody who was like, 'Holy crap, I get to write a show every week.' But could I have lived without that lesson? Absolutely. |
8 | I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV. |
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1 | Her professional output is responsible for an estimated 70 hours of television per season. |
2 | Shed 117lbs in a weight loss program. [2016] |
3 | Is a big fan of Game of Thrones (2011). |
4 | Suffers from fear of public speaking (glossophobia). |
5 | In 2013, she and her Shondaland company partner Betsy Beers were named co-winners of the 2014 Directors Guild of America Diversity Award. |
6 | Has 3 daughters: two adopted daughters are named Harper Rhimes (b.2002) & Emerson Pearl Rhimes (b.February 1, 2012) and another one daughter named Beckett Rhimes (b.September 2013) who was born via surrogate mother. |
7 | On the first day in September 2001 that she moved into a rental house in Vermont as a quiet place to finish a movie script, the World Trade Center was attacked, which prompted Rhimes to reassess her future and her goals. She decided her top priority was to adopt a child and nine months later she did, with daughter Harper, and became a single mother. Emerson followed in 2012. |
8 | Worked for few years as a film-development assistant before selling her first script. |
9 | Maintains two rooms across from her studio for her two children. |
10 | After graduating from Dartmouth, she read a news article that claimed that getting into USC's film school was harder than getting into Harvard Law School, so she elected to take on the more competitive challenge. |
11 | Rhimes is the youngest of six children of a PhD teacher/mother and a father who is now chief information officer at the University of Southern California. |
12 | She has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth (1991) and a master of fine arts (MFA) from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. |
13 | She is the youngest in her family and has three sisters and two brothers. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Scandal | | TV Series created by - 71 episodes, 2012 - 2015 written by - 9 episodes, 2012 - 2015 | |
Grey's Anatomy | | TV Series 1 episode, 2015 created by - 244 episodes, 2005 - 2015 written by - 26 episodes, 2005 - 2015 | |
Scandal: The Secret Is Out | 2013 | TV Movie creator | |
Private Practice | | TV Series created by - 112 episodes, 2007 - 2013 written by - 11 episodes, 2007 - 2013 | |
A corazón abierto | 2011 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
Open-Hearted | 2010 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
Grey's Anatomy: Come Rain or Shine | 2007 | TV Movie creator | |
Grey's Anatomy: Every Moment Counts | 2007 | TV Movie creator | |
Grey's Anatomy: Complications of the Heart | 2006 | TV Movie creator | |
Grey's Anatomy: Under Pressure | 2006 | TV Movie creator | |
Grey's Anatomy: Straight to the Heart | 2006 | TV Movie creator | |
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | 2004 | screenplay / story | |
Crossroads | 2002/I | written by | |
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | 1999 | TV Movie teleplay | |
Blossoms and Veils | 1998 | Short writer | |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Lawless | | TV Movie executive producer announced | |
Show & Tell | | TV Movie executive producer announced | |
Untitled Dana Calvo Project | | TV Movie executive producer announced | |
Untitled Shonda Rhimes Comedy | | TV Movie executive producer announced | |
The Catch | 2016 | TV Series executive producer - 12 episodes | |
Grey's Anatomy | 2005-2015 | TV Series executive producer - 244 episodes | |
How to Get Away with Murder | 2014-2015 | TV Series executive producer - 15 episodes | |
Scandal | 2012-2014 | TV Series executive producer - 46 episodes | |
Scandal: The Secret Is Out | 2013 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Private Practice | 2007-2013 | TV Series executive producer - 112 episodes | |
Gilded Lilys | 2013 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Off the Map | 2011 | TV Series executive producer - 5 episodes | |
Seattle Grace: Message of Hope | 2010 | TV Series producer | |
Seattle Grace: On Call | 2009 | TV Series producer | |
Inside the Box | 2009 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Grey's Anatomy: Come Rain or Shine | 2007 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Grey's Anatomy: Every Moment Counts | 2007 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Grey's Anatomy: Complications of the Heart | 2006 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Grey's Anatomy: Under Pressure | 2006 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Grey's Anatomy: Straight to the Heart | 2006 | TV Movie executive producer | |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Entertainment Tonight | 2007-2015 | TV Series | Herself |
Omg! Insider | 2014 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Producer |
Makers: Women in Hollywood | 2014 | Documentary | Herself |
Good Morning America | 2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Thank God It's Thursday on ABC | 2014 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Writers' Room | 2014 | TV Series | Herself - Creator & Executive Producer |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
44th NAACP Image Awards | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
Oprah's Next Chapter | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
Private Practice: The Practice of Parenthood | 2012 | Video documentary short | Herself |
America in Primetime | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
41st NAACP Image Awards | 2010 | TV Special | Herself |
The Brian McKnight Show | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
The 40th NAACP Image Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Herself |
39th NAACP Image Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Herself |
38th NAACP Image Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Herself |
The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Herself - Winner: Best Television Series - Drama |
The Oprah Winfrey Show | 2006 | TV Series | Herself |
The 4th Annual TV Land Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Herself |
ABC News Nightline | 2006 | TV Series | Herself |
37th NAACP Image Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Herself |
Tavis Smiley | 2005 | TV Series | Herself |
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2015 | Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement | Writers Guild of America, USA | | |
2014 | DGA Diversity Award | Directors Guild of America, USA | | |
2014 | Showmanship Award | Publicists Guild of America | Television | |
2013 | TV Guide Award | TV Guide Awards | Fan Favorite Awards | Scandal (2012) |
2013 | WIN Award | Women's Image Network Awards | Outstanding Film/Show Written by a Woman | Scandal (2012) |
2012 | Golden Gate Award | GLAAD Media Awards | | |
2011 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Private Practice (2007) |
2010 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2009 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2008 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2007 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2007 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2007 | Lucy Award | Women in Film Lucy Awards | | |
2006 | Gold Derby TV Award | Gold Derby Awards | Drama Episode of the Year | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2006 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | New Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2016 | Entertainer of the Year Award | Image Awards | | |
2015 | Entertainer of the Year Award | Image Awards | | |
2013 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2013 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series | Scandal (2012) |
2011 | Banff Rockie Award | Banff Television Festival | Best Continuing Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2008 | Image Award | Image Awards | Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series | Private Practice (2007) |
2008 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2007 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2007 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2006 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Drama Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2006 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2006 | PGA Award | PGA Awards | Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2006 | WGA Award (TV) | Writers Guild of America, USA | Dramatic Series | Grey's Anatomy (2005) |
2005 | Black Reel | Black Reel Awards | Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) |
2003 | Razzie Award | Razzie Awards | Worst Screenplay | Crossroads (2002) |
2000 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) |
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