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Born | New York City, U.S. |
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Spouse | Rhys Coiro |
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Kat Coiro is an American filmmaker known for directing Marry Me, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma for Universal Pictures in 2022.[ citation needed ] She directed and executive produced She-Hulk: Attorney at Law , co-executive produced and directed the pilot episodes of the television series Girls5Eva , Florida Girls, and many other television shows.
Coiro was born in Manhattan to parents Peter Eves and Gina Cunningham-Eves, who are of English and Italian American descent. [1] [2] Her sister, Emmy Eves, later became a production designer and worked as an art director on Coiro's first movie, Life Happens . [1] Her godmother, Katharine Kean, co-directed the 1992 documentary Haiti: Killing the Dream with Rudi Stern and starring Jean-Bertrand Aristide. [2] The family moved to Miami Beach, Florida when Coiro was in elementary school to open up a Haitian restaurant called Tap Tap, above which the family lived in an upstairs apartment. [1] [2]
In ninth grade, Coiro enrolled in boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy. [2] She taught theater at the University of Miami summer arts camp and studied theater and Russian history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and later studied directing at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia before moving to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking. [2]
Coiro began her career writing, directing and producing micro-budget independent films, including her 2011 debut Life Happens with Krysten Ritter and 2013 festival favorite And While We Were Here , which she shot in Italy in 11 days for $150,000 while pregnant. She later transitioned into television, directing episodes of shows including Dead to Me , Modern Family , Shameless and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia . She directed the pilot episodes of the television series Girls5Eva , Florida Girls, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law , and directed and executive produced the majority of episodes for the latter series. Her film Marry Me, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, and Maluma, was released to theaters and streaming in 2022 by Universal Pictures.
Coiro is married to actor Rhys Coiro, whom she directed in Life Happens and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. They have three children and a rescue chihuahua. [1] Coiro lives with her family in Los Angeles. [3]
Year | Title | Notes | Reference(s) |
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2014 | Slouching Towards Adulthood | Pilot for NBC based on Sally Koslow's book. | [4] [5] |
2015 | Splitting the Difference | Pilot for ABC based on Tre Miller Rodriguez's memoir. | [6] |
2016 | Untitled Kat Coiro | Pilot for ABC based on growing up above a Haitian Restaurant in Miami Beach. | [7] [8] |
2017 | Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce | [9] | |
2017 | Alone Together | ABC Freeform | |
2017 | The Mick | [10] | |
2017 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | ||
2017 | Mozart in the Jungle | ||
2018 | Sideswiped | 2 episodes | |
2018 | Florida Girls | Pilot | |
2018 | Daddy Issues | Pilot | |
2018 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | ||
2018 | Shameless | ||
2018 | Modern Family | ||
2018 | The Kids Are Alright | ||
2018-2019 | Single Parents | ||
2019 | Dead to Me | ||
2021 | Girls5Eva | ||
2022 | She-Hulk: Attorney at Law | 6 episodes; also executive producer. | [11] |
2024–present | The Spiderwick Chronicles | 2 episodes; also executive producer | [12] |
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
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2011 | L!fe Happens | Yes | Yes | Co-producer |
2012 | And While We Were Here | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2013 | A Case of You | Yes | No | No |
2022 | Marry Me | Yes | No | No |
TBA | The Husband's Secret [13] | Yes | No | No |
TBA | Foreign Relations | Yes | No | No |
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