Miranda Kwok

Miranda Kwok

Miranda Kwok is a screenwriter, television producer and actress born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is best known as the creator and executive producer of the drama series The Cleaning Lady set to premiere on Fox as a midseason entry during the 2021–22 television season.[2] [3]

Education and Accolades

Kwok began her studies in the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts, Canada's premiere multidisciplinary school for the performance and visual arts. While at Claude Watson, Kwok majored in Visual Arts and minored in Drama and Dance. Kwok 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.

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.

Kwok completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Toronto. During the same time, Kwok volunteered her services as a crisis intervention counselor at a community women's shelter and two rape crisis centers.

Kwok was a participant in "Project: Involve," a mentorship program at the IFP in Los Angeles. Through the directors of "Project: Involve," Kwok was recommended for and subsequently won a full scholarship award at The Los Angeles Film School for their Feature Development Program, which she completed with Honors.

Kwok is a Black Belt in the Martial Art of Wushu.

Kwok won the grand prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for a historical drama entitled Song of Silence.

Kwok was on the front cover of the February 2008 edition of The North York Post magazine.

Kwok is an honoree of the 2009 CBS Diversity Initiative Writers Mentoring Program, the 2010 WGA Writer Access Project for professional screenwriters [4], and the 2021 WGA’s Showrunner Training Program.

Writing Career

Kwok worked as a Staff Writer on the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, an original television drama on Starz Network. Kwok wrote episode Episode 105 "Shadow Games" [5] and co-wrote Episode 110 "Party Favors".

In 2014, Entertainment One Television acquired format rights to the Finnish fantasy drama series Nymphs to develop and produce a U.S. version of the TV series to be written by Kwok. [6]

From 2016 to 2020, Kwok worked as a writer for four seasons on the television series The 100 on the CW Network, ultimately serving as Supervising Producer. [7]

"The Cleaning Lady"

Kwok developed The Cleaning Lady, an American drama television series, based on the 2017 Argentinian television series La Chica Que Limpia.

Warner Bros. Television Studios had acquired the remake rights to the Spanish-language Argentinian television series, and on October 22, 2019, it was announced that an English-language adaptation of the series was being developed for Fox with Kwok set to write the script. Kwok also attached to executive produce with Melissa Carter and Shay Mitchell.

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. Television Studios set as co-production partners.

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 10 hour-long episodes on May 7, 2021.

Awards

• 2004 Slamdance Film Festival Sparky Award for Best Screenplay

Selected Filmography

• The Cleaning Lady - Executive Producer
• The Cleaning Lady - Pilot Episode "TNT" - Written By
• The 100 (2020) – Episode "The Queen's Gambit" - Written By
• The 100 (2020) – Supervising Producer
• The 100 (2019) – Episode "The Old Man and the Anomaly" - Written By
• The 100 (2019) – Producer
• The 100 (2018) – Episode "Sic Semper Tyrannis" - Written By
• The 100 (2018) – Co-Producer
• The 100 (2017) – Episode "DNR" - Written By
• The 100 (2017) – Executive Story Editor
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – Episode "Party Favors" – Co-Written By
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – Episode "Shadow Games" – Written By
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – Staff Writer

External links

• Miranda Kwok at IMDb
• Official Website