12 Facts About Elizabeth Meriwether

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Elizabeth Hughes Meriwether was born on October 11,1981 and is an American writer, producer and television showrunner.

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Elizabeth Meriwether created the ABC sitcoms Single Parents and Bless This Mess and the Hulu drama The Dropout.

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Elizabeth Meriwether's family moved from Miami to Detroit, Michigan, when she was five years old, and then to Ann Arbor, Michigan, when she was 10.

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Elizabeth Meriwether's father, Heath J Meriwether, was the publisher of the newspaper Detroit Free Press, and her mother, Patricia Hughes Meriweather, was a painter.

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Elizabeth Meriwether grew up aspiring to be an actress, but when she wrote her first play, she realized she wanted to be a playwright instead.

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Elizabeth Meriwether held a showcase of her plays in Los Angeles, in which a young Emma Stone was cast.

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Elizabeth Meriwether has credited the showcase and Stone's participation as an important point in her career trajectory.

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Elizabeth Meriwether wrote the 2011 romantic comedy film No Strings Attached, directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.

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Elizabeth Meriwether received put pilot commitment from ABC for the show Woman Up.

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Elizabeth Meriwether worked on the project with Zoe Lister-Jones, and Jason Winer.

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Elizabeth Meriwether is part of "The Fempire", a group of female screenwriters that includes Dana Fox, Diablo Cody and Lorene Scafaria.

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Elizabeth Meriwether is a well-known feminist, who has done stand-up comedy, and performed for The Vagina Monologues in Las Vegas.