Ilene Chaiken Biography
Ilene Chaiken is a television producer, director, writer, and the creator of Little Chicken Productions in the United States. Chaiken is most recognized for her work as a co-creator, writer, and executive producer for the television series The L Word. She has also served as an executive producer on Empire, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Law & Order: SVU.
How old is Ilene Chaiken? – Age
She is 66 years old as of 30 June 2023. She was born in 1957 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ilene Chaiken Family – Education
Chaiken was born to a Jewish family in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. She earned an undergraduate degree in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979.
Is ilene chaiken married? – Children
Chaiken has been married to Disney executive LouAnne Brickhouse since 2013. They live in the Hollywood Hills’ Laurel Canyon region and have raised over 100 kinds of birds and other animals, which they photograph on an Instagram account on a daily basis. She and her ex-partner, English architect Miggi Hood, have twin daughters Tallulah and Augusta.
Ilene Chaiken Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $14 million.
Ilene Chaiken Documentary
In 2014, Chaiken directed the Showtime documentary L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin. The film focused on several lesbian women who shared their experiences growing up homosexual in the Deep South. Chaiken was also a showrunner for ABC’s The Black Box around this time, which was cancelled after one season.
Ilene Chaiken The L Word
Chaiken co-made The L Word in 2004, motivated generally by her own encounters as a lesbian. Her most memorable sentiment with another lady, which finished in catastrophe when the lady uncovered she had a significant distance sweetheart, filled in as a free motivation for the relationship of the characters Marina Ferrer and Jenny Schecter.
Ilene Chaiken Career
She started her vocation as a specialist student for Innovative Craftsmen Organization, and as a chief for Aaron Spelling and Quincy Jones Amusement. In 1988, she was the organizing maker for The New Ruler of Bel-Air and the partner maker for Fulfillment. She then, at that point, composed the screenplay Spike Wire (1996), and the TV films Messy Pictures (2000), and Harmed Care (2002). Filthy Pictures won the Brilliant Globe for Best Miniseries or TV Film in 2000.
In 2007, she and a gathering of ladies in the diversion and tech businesses sent off a person to person communication site called OurChart for lesbians and their companions. OurChart was online until 2008, when it was closure. Around then, a side project show of The L Word entitled The Homestead was being developed and two pilots were being composed by Chaiken, despite the fact that Kickoff never purchased the series. Chaiken is credited with first fostering the television variation of The Handmaid’s Story, which turned into an effective Hulu unique show. Chaiken passed on the task during advancement to turn into the show-sprinter on Fox’s Domain, yet was as yet credited as a leader maker.
In January 2019, Kickoff declared that it had requested a full time of the spin-off of The L Word. The show broadcasted December 8, 2019, named The L Word: Age Q, and gets where the first series finished, set decade after the fact.
All the more as of late, her organization, Minimal Chicken Creations, marked a general arrangement with All inclusive TV. In 2020, Chaiken co-made the show Regulation and Request: Coordinated Wrongdoing, a side project of the long-running series Regulation and Request. The next year, she functioned as an essayist and showrunner for the series, however was supplanted by Barry O’Brien part-way through creation of the subsequent season.
Ilene Chaiken Movies
♦ 2014 – L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin
♦ 2002 – Damaged Care
♦ 2000 – Dirty Pictures
♦ 1996 – Barb Wire
♦ 1988 – Satisfaction
Ilene Chaiken TV Shows
♦ 2021–2022 – Law & Order: Organized Crime
♦ 2019–2023 – The L Word: Generation Q
♦ 2017–present – The Handmaid’s Tale
♦ 2015–2020 – Empire
♦ 2010–2012 – The Real L Word
♦ 2004–2009 – The L Word
♦ 1991–1992 – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air