Angela Amato Velez is an American television writer and producer. She has also worked as a police officer, legal aid attorney and novelist. She has worked as a writer and producer on the police drama ''

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'' and the legal drama ''

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''. She was nominated for a

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for best new series for ''The Good Wife'' in 2010.

Career

Amato Velez began working in television in 2003 as a story consultant and writer for the NBC police drama ''

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''. The series was produced by John Wells. She wrote the fifth-season episodes "A Ticket Grows in Brooklyn" and "In Plain View". She continued in the same role for the series sixth and final season in 2004. She wrote the episodes "Forever Blue" and "End of Tour". Amato Velez joined Wells on his next police project, a drama entitled ''

''. She served as a consulting producer and writer on the series first season. Amato Velez co-wrote the episode "Sally in the Alley" with creator and executive producer Ann Biderman. She also co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Westside" with fellow consulting producer

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based on a story by Biderman. She left the crew of ''Southland'' after the first season. She became a consulting producer and writer for the first season of CBS legal drama ''

''. She wrote the episode "Conjugal". Amato Velez and the writing staff were nominated for a

for best new series for their work on the first season. She left the series when it completed its original thirteen episode order despite a further nine episodes being ordered.

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