Diablo Cody gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.
35 Facts About Diablo Cody
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Diablo Cody created, wrote, and produced the Showtime comedy drama series United States of Tara.
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Diablo Cody wrote, produced, and made her directorial debut with the comedy drama film Paradise.
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Diablo Cody wrote and produced the horror comedy film Jennifer's Body, the comedy drama film Young Adult, which earned her a second nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, the musical comedy film Ricki and the Flash, and the comedy drama film Tully.
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Diablo Cody won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Jagged Little Pill, her first musical-theater undertaking.
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Diablo Cody has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Writer's Branch since 2008.
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Diablo Cody was born Brook Busey on June 14,1978 in Lemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she and her older brother Marc were raised.
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Diablo Cody's mother is of Italian descent and her father is of German ancestry.
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Diablo Cody began a parody blog called Red Secretary, detailing the exploits of a secretary living in Belarus.
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In March 2003, Cody started an adult blog called The Pussy Ranch, using a pen name invented while speeding through Cody, Wyoming listening to the song "El Diablo" by Arcadia.
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Diablo Cody left City Pages just before it changed editorial hands, and has since written for the now-defunct Jane magazine.
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In December 2007, Diablo Cody began writing a column for the magazine Entertainment Weekly.
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At the age of 27, Diablo Cody wrote her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper.
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The memoir began after Mason Novick, who would soon become Diablo Cody's manager, showed interest in her sharp and sarcastic voice.
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Diablo Cody herself won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her debut script, which picked up a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
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In October 2007, Diablo Cody sold a script titled Girly Style to Universal Studios, and a horror script called Jennifer's Body to Fox Atomic.
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Diablo Cody revised writer-director Steven Antin's script for his musical film Burlesque.
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Diablo Cody made a small cameo appearance as herself in a 2008 episode of the television series 90210.
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Diablo Cody appeared in the same episode that marked the return of Tori Spelling as Donna Martin, in which Cody needed Spelling's character to make a dress for a red carpet event.
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In 2009, Diablo Cody signed on to script and produce a film adaptation of the Sweet Valley High young adult book series.
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In October 2011, Diablo Cody began hosting an online celebrity interview program called "Red Band Trailer," on the broadband channel, L-studio.
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Diablo Cody originally launched the series privately on YouTube in summer 2010, and the Lexus channel picked it up the following year.
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In 2011, Diablo Cody wrote and produced the comedy-drama film Young Adult.
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Diablo Cody was nominated by awards associations such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Writers Guild of America.
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Diablo Cody was a producer, alongside Mark Cronin and Courtland Cox.
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Diablo Cody had numerous projects that were cancelled or stuck in development hell, including Time and a Half, which was to star Julianne Hough with Ol Parker directing.
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Diablo Cody developed a teen drama series with Josh Schwartz for Fox called Prodigy.
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Diablo Cody's experiment goes off the rails when she finds herself adopted by a wild crowd, getting caught up in a whirlwind of romance and crime.
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Diablo Cody is the spokesperson of Barnard College's Athena Film Festival.
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Diablo Cody wrote and produced the musical comedy film Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Jonathan Demme in his last feature film.
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Diablo Cody wrote and produced the comedy drama film Tully, reuniting her with Young Adult star Charlize Theron.
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Diablo Cody wrote the script for the Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, based on the Alanis Morissette album of the same name.
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Diablo Cody is a friend of screenwriters Dana Fox and Lorene Scafaria and they often write their screenplays together in order to get advice from one another.
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In light of Georgia's 2019 anti-abortion law, Diablo Cody stated that she has regretted writing Juno, as critics have perceived it as an anti-abortion film.
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Diablo Cody is a lifelong roller coaster enthusiast and has a tattoo of the Giant Dipper at San Diego's Belmont Park on her right arm.