Dee Johnson | |
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 Johnson at the PaleyFest 2013 panel on the TV show Nashville | |
| Born | November 17 |
| Occupation(s) | Television writer and producer |
Dee Johnson is an American television producer and writer. She has worked on the series ER , Melrose Place , Commander in Chief , Southland , The Good Wife [1] and was an executive producer and showrunner on Nashville for seasons one through four, exiting after the fourth season. [2]
Johnson began her career as a writer in Fox primetime soap opera Melrose Place . [1] She was one of the major writers of Melrose Place from 1993 to 1995. She was writer of 19 episodes on ER , and also worked in show as co-executive producer. In 2005, Johnson was nominated for Humanitas Prize Award for ER. [3] Her other credits include I'll Fly Away , Profiler , Any Day Now , Army Wives , Southland , Rizzoli & Isles , and The Good Wife . [1]
From 2005 to 2006, Johnson was an executive producer on Commander in Chief , which starred Geena Davis as the United States' first female President. In 2009, she joined the staff of police drama Southland as a writer and consulting producer for the first season. In 2010, she became an executive producer for the legal drama The Good Wife . In 2012, she was an executive producer for 10 episodes of second season on Boss , and took part by writing two episodes. [4] She was later called in to work as showrunner and executive producer on ABC drama Nashville starring Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere. [5] For her work on Nashville and The Good Wife, Johnson was nominated for Writers Guild of America Award. [6] [7]
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