Shonda Rhimes Biography
Shonda Rhimes is a television screenwriter, producer, and author from the United States best known for being the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the political thriller Scandal and the television medical dramas Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. Along with the ABC television programs Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, and the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Station 19, Rhimes also served as the executive producer for these programs.
How old is Shonda Rhimes? – Age
She is 52 years old as of 13 January 2022. She was born in 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Her real name is Shonda Lynn Rhimes.
Shonda Rhimes Family
She is the youngest of six children of university administrator Ilee Rhimes, Jr., and college professor Vera P. (née Cain). Her mother pursued her Ph.D. in educational administration in 1991 while raising their six children and attending college. Her father, who has an MBA, was appointed the University of Southern California’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), a position he held until 2013. Rhimes shared a home with her two older brothers and three older sisters in Park Forest South (now University Park, Illinois).
She moved to San Francisco with an older sibling after graduating from college and worked in advertising at McCann Erickson. She then relocated to Los Angeles where she began studying screenwriting at the University of Southern California. Rhimes, who graduated from USC at the top of her class, was awarded the Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship. The USC School of Cinematic Arts awarded her a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Shonda Rhimes Husband – Children
Rhimes adopted her first child in June 2002 and another in February 2012. Rhimes welcomed her third child via gestational surrogacy in September 2013.
Shonda Rhimes Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $140 Million.
Shonda Rhimes Bridgerton
She is one of the Executive producers of the American historical-romance streaming television series Bridgerton. The first season premiered on Netflix on December 25, 2020, to generally positive reviews, and with 625.49 million hours viewed, it became the most-watched English-language series at the time of its premiere before being surpassed by its sophomore season.
With 656.16 million hours watched in its first 28 days, Bridgerton’s second season became the most-watched English-language television series on Netflix at the time. It debuted on the platform on March 25, 2022, to generally positive reviews, and debuted at number one in 92 countries. According to Nielsen Media Research, it was also the most-watched show on US television screens for three weeks.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the show’s record-breaking second season, which surpassed season one in viewership, cemented Bridgerton as a franchise. According to Slate, the series as a whole gave the romance genre its own cinematic universe, with the female gaze front and center.
Shonda Rhimes Book – Year of Yes
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person, her first memoir, was published in 2015.
Shonda Rhimes Grey’s Anatomy
Grey’s Anatomy was created by Shonda Rhimes, who is also the show’s executive producer and head writer. On March 27, 2005, the series debuted as a mid-season replacement. The series follows the surgical staff at Seattle Grace Hospital in Seattle, Washington. The series has an ensemble cast, with Ellen Pompeo playing the titular character Meredith Grey, who narrates the majority of the episodes.
Rhimes created and produced the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice, which premiered on ABC on September 26, 2007. The show followed Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as she moved from Seattle Grace Hospital to Los Angeles to start a private practice. Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman, Audra McDonald, and Taye Diggs were among the series’ ensemble cast members. Because of a writers’ strike, the first season was cut to nine episodes. ABC picked up Private Practice for the 2012-13 television season with 13 episodes in May 2012. The season finale aired on January 22, 2013.
Inside the Box, a female-centric ensemble drama set in a network news bureau in Washington, D.C., premiered on ABC in 2010. Catherine was the main character, an ambitious female news producer who, along with her colleagues, pursued “the story” at all costs while juggling personal animosities and moral crises. The network did not pick it up.
Rhimes was an executive producer on Off the Map, a medical drama created by Grey’s Anatomy writer Jenna Bans, in 2011. ABC ordered Shona Rhimes’ pilot script Scandal to series in May 2011. It centered on a group of doctors who work at a remote clinic in the Amazon jungle. The ABC network officially canceled the series on May 13, 2011. The Catch, a comedy-drama led by Rhimes and based on a treatment by Kate Atkinson, premiered on ABC in March 2016. It was renewed for a second season and starred Mireille Enos and Peter Krause.