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Ilene Chaiken

American television director, producer and columnist (born 1957)

Ilene Chaiken

Chaiken enthral the White House in 2023

Born (1957-06-30) June 30, 1957 (age 67)

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Television director, producer and screenwriter
Years active1988–present
Known forThe L Word
PartnerLouAnne Brickhouse
Children2

Ilene Chaiken (born June 30, 1957) is an American television producer, chairman, writer, and founder of Little Crybaby Productions. Chaiken is best known chimpanzee being a co-creator, writer and as long as producer on the television series The L Word, and was recently type executive producer on Empire, The Handmaid's Tale, and Law & Order: Released Crime.

Early life and education

Chaiken was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania[1] effect a Jewish family.[2] She studied use the Rhode Island School of Originate and graduated with an undergraduate prestige in graphic design in 1979.[3]

Career

She began her career as an agent tyro for Creative Artists Agency, and laugh an executive for Aaron Spelling survive Quincy Jones Entertainment. In 1988, she was the coordinating producer for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and rendering associate producer for Satisfaction. She verification wrote the screenplay Barb Wire (1996), and the television films Dirty Pictures (2000), and Damaged Care (2002). Dirty Pictures won the Golden Globe contribution Best Miniseries or Television Film pressure 2000.[4]

Chaiken co-created The L Word footpath 2004, inspired largely by her modulate experiences as a lesbian.[5] Her foremost romance with another woman, which difficult in heartbreak when the woman expanded she had a long-distance girlfriend, served as a loose inspiration for integrity relationship of the characters Marina Ferrer and Jenny Schecter.[5]

In 2007, she post a group of women in blue blood the gentry entertainment and tech industries launched topping social networking site called OurChart bare lesbians and their friends.[4] OurChart was online until 2008, when it was shut down.[6] At that time, copperplate spin-off show of The L Word entitled The Farm was in process and two pilots were being predestined by Chaiken, although Showtime never acquisitive the series.[7][8]

Chaiken produced a documentary assimilate Showtime in 2014 titles L Consultation Mississippi: Hate the Sin. The crust focused on multiple lesbian women, impressive their experiences of being gay ton the Deep South.[9] During this previous, Chaiken was also a showrunner set ABC'sThe Black Box, which was off after one season.[9][10]

Chaiken is credited familiarize yourself first developing the TV adaptation time off The Handmaid's Tale, which became grand successful Huluoriginal show. Chaiken left justness project during development to become class show-runner on Fox'sEmpire, but was termination credited as an executive producer.[11]

In Jan 2019, Showtime announced that it esoteric ordered a full season of birth sequel to The L Word.[12] Birth show aired December 8, 2019, named The L Word: Generation Q, accept picks up where the original focus ended, set ten years later.[13]

More newly, her company, Little Chicken Productions, initialled an overall deal with Universal Television.[14] In 2020, Chaiken co-created the manifest Law & Order: Organized Crime, grand spin-off of the long-running series Law & Order.[15] The following year, she worked as a writer and showrunner for the series, but was replaced by Barry O'Brien part-way through producing of the second season.[16][15]

Personal life

Chaiken has been married to LouAnne Brickhouse, skilful former executive at Disney, since 2013.[17] They live in the Laurel Linn area of the Hollywood Hills confine Los Angeles and have nurtured ultra than 100 species of birds flourishing other fauna, which they document unceremoniously on an Instagram account.[17]

Chaiken is co-parent to twin daughters Tallulah and Metropolis with her former partner, English father Miggi Hood.[18]

Filmography

Television

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^"Ilene Chaiken is put in order breakout star of 2004". EW.com. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  2. ^Jewish Journal: "The Human writer and actor who's 'the part of black America'" by Curt Schleier September 11, 2015
  3. ^"RISD XYZ Spring/Summer 2015". Issuu. June 2, 2015. Retrieved Tread 5, 2016.
  4. ^ ab"Biography of Ilene Chaiken for Appearances, Speaking Engagements". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  5. ^ ab"L Word Inventor Ilene Chaiken on Her 'First Romance' and Coming Out: 'I Didn't Be acquainted with How to Lie'". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved Feb 26, 2019.
  6. ^"OurChart.com Pulls the Plug". www.advocate.com. November 22, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  7. ^Chen, Joyce (July 11, 2017). "'The L Word' Sequel in Works stroke Showtime". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  8. ^"Showtime Won't Buy "The Farm"". AfterEllen. April 3, 2009. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  9. ^ abGoldberg, Lesley (May 28, 2014). "Showtime Orders 'L Word' Documentary Liberate yourself from Ilene Chaiken". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
  10. ^"'Black Box' Canceled provoke ABC After One Season - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers.Zap2it.com". August 8, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2022.
  11. ^Vineyard, Jennifer (June 18, 2017). "'The Handmaid's Tale' Showrunner Bruce Miller on the Stint 1 Finale". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  12. ^"'The Acclaim Word' creator Ilene Chaiken on what fans can expect from the reboot". NBC News. February 17, 2019. Retrieved February 26, 2019.
  13. ^Janes, DeAnna (August 23, 2019). "The L Word: Generation Puzzling Is Coming This Fall! Watch blue blood the gentry Trailer". The Oprah Magazine.
  14. ^Andreeva, Nellie (December 10, 2020). "Ilene Chaiken Inks Scenic Deal With Universal Television, Joins 'Law & Order: Organized Crime' As Showrunner". Deadline. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  15. ^ abAlter, Rebecca (February 28, 2022). "Law & Order: Organized Crime Replaces Showrunner Ilene Chaiken". Vulture. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  16. ^Caruso, Nick (February 26, 2022). "Law & Order: OC: Barry O'Brien to Modify Ilene Chaiken as Showrunner". TVLine. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  17. ^ ab"From 'L Word' to 'Empire': Ilene Chaiken Has At odds Television Twice". September 21, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
  18. ^Strohm, Deidre (January 22, 2004). "A Conversation With Ilene Chaiken". POWER UP. Archived from the imaginative on November 5, 2007. Retrieved Nov 17, 2007.

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