Corinne Brinkerhoff

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Corinne Brinkerhoff
Born
Corinne Noel Brinkerhoff

1979 (age 4445)
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Alma mater
Occupation(s) Television producer, writer
Years active2006–present
Television The Good Wife , Boston Legal

Corinne Noel Brinkerhoff (born 1979) is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the series The Good Wife and Boston Legal . She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best new series in 2010. [1]

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Background

Brinkerhoff was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and graduated from Lawrence High School. [2] She is an alumna of Truman State University, initially majoring in aerospace engineering, with a minor in creative writing. [3] She changed majors, graduated, and took graduate studies at the Boston University College of Communication. [4]

Career

Brinkerhoff began working in television in 2004 as the executive assistant to showrunner David E. Kelley on Boston Legal . She became a writer in 2006, writing nine episodes in the entire series' run. In 2007, she became a story editor and was promoted to executive story editor in 2008. [4]

The Good Wife

She became a co-producer and writer for new legal drama The Good Wife in 2009, writing 10 episodes over the course of 67 episodes produced. [5] Brinkerhoff and the writing team were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for best new television series in 2010 for their work on the first season of The Good Wife. [1]

Elementary to present

From 2012 to 2013, Brinkerhoff was co-executive producer for the television series Elementary , writing three episodes and a teleplay for another. In 2014, she was co-executive producer for the short-lived series Reckless , writing one episode. She wrote an unnamed pilot episode before becoming co-executive producer and writer for the television series Jane the Virgin from 2014 to 2015. [5]

In 2016, she created the series American Gothic , of which she was showrunner, executive producer and writer. She was also executive producer for the series No Tomorrow, which debuted in 2016.

Personal life

Brinkerhoff is married to Laura Kampf. [6]

Filmography

YearWorkProducerWriterNotes
2006–08 Boston Legal YesStory editor
2009–12 The Good Wife YesYes
2012–13 Elementary YesYes
2014IdentityYesTV pilot
2014 Reckless YesYes
2014–15 Jane the Virgin YesYes
2016 American Gothic YesYesSeries creator
2016 No Tomorrow YesYesSeries developer
2020 Miss Farah YesArabic-language remake of Jane the Virgin

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