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Miranda Kwok
Woman with East Asian features, wearing black top, smiling at camera
Kwok in 2012
Born
Canada
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • actress
  • television producer
Known forThe Cleaning Lady
Websitemirandakwok.com

Miranda Kwok is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actor, and television producer best known as the creator and executive producer of the Fox drama series The Cleaning Lady, which premiered on January 3, 2022.[1][2]

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 in Toronto, Canada.[citation needed] She majored in visual arts and minored in drama and dance.[citation needed] 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.[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] During the same time, Kwok volunteered her services as a crisis intervention counselor at a community women's shelter and two rape crisis centers.[citation needed]

She was a participant in "Project: Involve", a mentorship program at the IFP in Los Angeles.[citation needed] Through its directors, 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.[citation needed]

Kwok is a Black Belt in the Chinese martial art of Wushu.[citation needed]

The actress won the grand prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for a historical drama entitled Song of Silence.[3]

Kwok was on the front cover of the February 2008 edition of The North York Post.[4]

She is an honoree of the 2009 CBS Diversity Initiative Writers Mentoring Program, the 2010 WGA Writer Access Project for professional screenwriters,[5] and the 2021 WGA's Showrunner Training Program.[citation needed]

Writing career

Kwok worked as a staff writer on the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, an original television drama on Starz Network. 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, to develop and produce a U.S. version of the series, to be written by Kwok.[7]

In 2016, Kwok joined the writing staff of the television series The 100 on the CW Network. She worked on the series as a writer and producer for four seasons, ultimately serving as supervising producer in 2020.[citation needed]

The Cleaning Lady

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.

Kwok won the 2023 Gracie Award for her work writing the Pilot of The Cleaning Lady in the category of "Writer Scripted - Drama (TV - National)" as announced on March 30, 2023. [8]

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.[9]

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.[10]

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.[11]

An official trailer for The Cleaning Lady was released on December 14, 2021, during the TCA Press Tour, in advance of the series premiere.[2]

Awards

Selected filmography

  • Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – Episode "Shadow Games" – Writer
  • Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010) – Episode "Party Favors" – Co-writer
  • The 100 (2017) – Executive story editor
  • The 100 (2017) – Episode "DNR" - Writer
  • The 100 (2018) – Episode "Sic Semper Tyrannis" - Writer
  • The 100 (2018) – Episode "Sic Semper Tyrannis" - Writer
  • The 100 (2019) – Episode "The Old Man and the Anomaly" - Writer
  • The 100 (2020) – Episode "The Queen's Gambit" - Writer
  • The Cleaning Lady - Creator, executive producer, writer

References

  1. ^ "'The Cleaning Lady' Ordered to Series at Fox". hollywoodreporter.com. May 7, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "'The Cleaning Lady' Gets Trailer; Élodie Yung Talks Portraying Cambodian Immigrant with a Fighter's Spirit in Fox Drama Series – TCA". deadline.com. December 14, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  3. ^ Film Festivals Archived August 13, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ [1] Archived April 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Miranda Kwok". wga.org. Archived from the original on September 8, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  6. ^ "Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Ep. 1.05: "Shadow Games" – Fight As One or Die As Two". popoptiq.com. March 11, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  7. ^ "Finnish Fantasy Series 'Nymphs' to Be Adapted By Entertainment One Television". deadline.com. September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  8. ^ "Meghan Markle Receives Gracie Award for 'Archetypes' Podcast — See the Other Winners".
  9. ^ White, Peter (October 22, 2019). "Fox To Adapt Argentinian Mob Drama 'The Cleaning Lady' From Miranda Kwok, Melissa Carter, Shay Mitchell & Warner Bros. TV". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  10. ^ Petski, Denise (January 23, 2020). "Fox Orders Drama Pilot 'The Cleaning Lady' Based On Argentine Series". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on February 26, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
  11. ^ Otterson, Joe (May 7, 2021). "Fox Orders Drama Series 'The Cleaning Lady' Starring Elodie Yung". Variety. Archived from the original on May 8, 2021. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
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