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Miranda Kwok | |
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 Kwok in 2012 | |
| Born | Canada |
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| Known for | The Cleaning Lady |
| Website | mirandakwok |
Miranda Kwok is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actress, and television producer best known as the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the Fox drama series The Cleaning Lady , which premiered on January 3, 2022. [1] [2] Kwok won the 2023 Gracie Awards for her work on the show, in the Writer Scripted – Drama (TV – National) category. [3]
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Kwok began her studies in the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto, Canada.[ citation needed ] She majored in visual arts and minored in drama and dance.[ citation needed ] She made her television debut at the age of thirteen and has performed in several leading, supporting, and guest-starring roles in film, television, and theatre.[ citation needed ]
Kwok continued her education at Earl Haig Secondary School, where she completed the Claude Watson Arts Program as well as the Academy Program for the intellectually gifted.[ citation needed ] She also completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and psychology at the University of Toronto.[ citation needed ]
Kwok was a participant in Project: Involve, a mentorship program at the IFP in Los Angeles.[ citation needed ] Through its directors, she was recommended for and subsequently won a full scholarship award at the Los Angeles Film School in the Feature Development Program, which she completed with honors.[ citation needed ]
Kwok won the grand prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for a historical drama entitled Song of Silence. [4]
She is an honoree of the 2021 WGA's Showrunner Training Program.[ citation needed ], the 2010 WGA Writer Access Project for professional screenwriters, [5] and the 2009 CBS Diversity Initiative Writers Mentoring Program.
Kwok worked as a staff writer on the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand , a 2010 original television drama on Starz. She wrote episode 105, "Shadow Games", [6] and co-wrote episode 110, "Party Favors".[ citation needed ]
In 2014, Entertainment One Television acquired format rights to the Finnish fantasy drama series Nymphs , in order to develop and produce a US version, which was to be written by Kwok. [7]
In 2016, Kwok joined the writing staff of the television series The 100 on the CW Network, where she worked as a writer and producer for four seasons, ultimately serving as supervising producer in 2020.[ citation needed ]
Kwok created the American drama television series The Cleaning Lady , based on the 2017 Argentinian television show La Chica Que Limpia. The Cleaning Lady premiered on Fox on January 3, 2022, as a midseason entry during the 2021–22 television season.
Warner Bros. had acquired the remake rights to the Spanish-language television series, and on October 22, 2019, it was announced that an English-language adaptation was being developed for Fox, with Kwok set to write the pilot script. Kwok was also attached to executive-produce with Melissa Carter and Shay Mitchell. [8]
On January 23, 2020, Fox gave the project a pilot order, the first for the network's 2020–21 television season, with Fox Entertainment and Warner Bros. set as co-production partners. [9]
The series was ultimately pushed back to the 2021–22 television season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Fox giving a series greenlight consisting of ten hour-long episodes on May 7, 2021. [10] The show premiered on January 3, 2022.
On August 25, 2022, it was announced that Kwok was promoted to showrunner on The Cleaning Lady. [11] On May 12, 2024, Deadline Hollywood announced that the show had been renewed for a fourth season but that Kwok and her co-showrunner and co-executive producer Jeannine Renshaw would not be returning. [12]
Kwok won the 2023 Gracie Award for her work writing the show's pilot episode, in the Writer Scripted – Drama (TV – National) category. [13]
Kwok, Mitchell, and Carter were listed in Variety magazine's 2022 TV Producers Impact List. [14]