Brook Maurio (''

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'' Busey; born June 14, 1978), known professionally by the

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Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid

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and subsequent memoir, '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper'' (2005). Cody received critical acclaim for her screenwriting debut film, ''

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'' (2007), winning the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Cody created, wrote, and produced the

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comedy drama series ''

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'' (2009–2011). She wrote, produced, and made her

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with the comedy drama film ''

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'' (2013). Cody also wrote and produced the horror comedy film ''

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'' (2009), the comedy drama film ''

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'' (2011), which earned her a second nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, the musical comedy film ''

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'' (2015), and the comedy drama film '' Tully'' (2018). Cody won a

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for ''

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'', her first musical-theater undertaking. She has been a member of the

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in the Writer's Branch since 2008.

Early life

Diablo Cody was born Brook Busey on June 14, 1978 in

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, a suburb of Chicago, where she and her older brother Marc were raised. She is the daughter of Pam and Greg Busey. Her mother is of Italian descent and her father is of German ancestry. Cody was raised Apostolic Christian and attended

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, a Roman Catholic school in

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. At this time, she went by her birth name Brook. In 2000, she graduated from the

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with a

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in Media. While at the

, she worked in the acquisitions department in the main university library. Her first jobs were doing secretarial work at a Chicago law firm and later

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for advertisements that played on

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radio stations.

Career

2001–2004: Blogging and stripping

Cody began a

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called ''Red Secretary'', detailing the (fictional) exploits of a secretary living in

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.Alt URL
/ref> The events were thinly-veiled allegories for events that happened in Cody's real life, but told from the perspective of a disgruntled, English-

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-challenged

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girl. Cody's first ''bona fide'' blog appeared under the nickname ''Darling Girl'' after she had moved from Chicago to

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. In March 2003, Cody started an adult blog called ''The Pussy Ranch'', using a pen name invented while speeding through

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listening to the song "El Diablo" by Arcadia. On a whim, Cody signed up for amateur night at a Minneapolis strip club called the Skyway Lounge. Having enjoyed the experience, and seeing reader interest, she eventually quit her day job to become a full-time

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. Cody also spent time working

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s at Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty and DVD store. While still stripping, Cody began writing for ''

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'', an alternative

weekly newspaper. She left ''City Pages'' just before it changed editorial hands, and has since written for the now-defunct ''

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'' magazine. In December 2007, Cody began writing a column for the magazine ''

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''.

2005–2010: ''Juno'', ''Jennifer's Body'', and acclaim

At the age of 27, Cody wrote her memoir '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper''. The memoir began after

Mason Novick Mason Novick (born December 20, 1974) is an American film producer and talent manager based in Los Angeles. Background Career His credits include '' Red Eye'' (2005), '' Juno'' (2007), ''(500) Days of Summer'' (2009) and ''Jennifer's Body'' ( ...

, who would soon become Cody's manager, showed interest in her sharp and sarcastic voice. Based on the popularity of her blog, Novick was able to secure her a publishing contract with

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. After the completion of her book, Cody was encouraged by

to try writing a screenplay. Within months she wrote ''

,'' a coming-of-age story about a teenager's unplanned pregnancy. The script was completed in February 2005, and was optioned by a producer by that summer. The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars

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and

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. ''Juno'' was runner-up for the

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People's Choice Award, won second prize at the Rome Film Festival, and earned four

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nominations, including for

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. Cody herself won an Academy Award for

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for her debut script, which also picked up a

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nomination and an

. She also won screenplay honors from BAFTA, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the 2008 Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Work of Director, Producer & Screenwriter (shared with Jason Reitman,

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, Mason Novick, Russel Smith and Lianne Halfon). Diablo Cody2

The Juno script was read by many in Hollywood before the film was released, bringing Cody more opportunities. In July 2007,

announced that it would be producing a pilot of Cody's

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television series, ''

''. Based on an idea by

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, ''Tara'' is a comedy about a mother with

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, starring

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. The series began filming in Spring 2008, and premiered on January 18, 2009. In October 2007, Cody sold a script titled ''Girly Style'' to

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, and a horror script called ''

'' to

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. Released on September 18, 2009, ''Jennifer's Body'' starred

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as the title character and

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as the supporting character. She revised writer-director Steven Antin's script for his musical film ''

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''. Cody made a small cameo appearance as herself in a 2008 episode of the television series '' 90210''. She appeared in the same episode that marked the return of

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, in which Cody needed Spelling's character to make a dress for a red carpet event. In 2009, Cody signed on to script and produce a film adaptation of the ''

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book series
Diablo Cody is co-writing that the untold true story
.

2011–present: ''Young Adult'', ''Tully'', and other works

In 2011, she was brought in to revise first-time feature director Fede Alvarez's script for the remake of

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's 1980s horror film ''

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''. In October 2011, Cody began hosting an online celebrity interview program called "Red Band Trailer," on the broadband channel, L-studio. She originally launched the series privately on YouTube in summer 2010, and the Lexus channel picked it up the following year. In 2011, Cody wrote and produced the comedy-drama film ''

''. Cody was nominated by awards associations such as the

and the

. With Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron and

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, she shared the Chairman's Vanguard Award at the

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. In 2012, the Fempire, the collaboration of writers Cody,

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, and

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received the Creativity and Sisterhood Award from the Athena Film Festival for their support for one another in the competitive film industry. On the ''

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'' podcast, on February 24, 2012, she said her next project would be directing her first film, which is about a young woman who abandons religion after surviving a plane crash. In February 2013, she announced that the film was called ''

'' (firstly known as ''Lamb of God'').

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, and

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starred in the cast.

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produced the film, which was released in October 2013. In May 2013, it was announced that Cody would host her own talk show, ''Me Time with Diablo Cody'', on TBS. The program would tailor "around Diablo’s unique perspective on all things pop culture and told in her very own tongue-in-cheek way," and "reveal a side of Hollywood and celebs that the public very rarely gets to see."

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was to be presenting and writing with her. Cody was a producer, alongside Mark Cronin and Courtland Cox. The series never materialized or made it to air. Cody had numerous projects that were cancelled or stuck in

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, including ''Time and a Half'', which was to star

with

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directing. She also developed a teen drama series with

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for

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called ''Prodigy''. According to ''

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'', it focused on "a 16-year-old genius who through home schooling has been isolated from her peers. Hoping to experience a "normal" teen social life before she enters the adult world of academia, she enrolls in her local high school. Her experiment goes off the rails when she finds herself adopted by a wild crowd, getting caught up in a whirlwind of romance and crime." Cody also created and wrote

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's romantic comedy series pilot ''Alex+Amy''. Cody is the

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's Athena Film Festival. Cody wrote and produced the musical comedy film ''

'' (2015), starring

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and directed by

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in his last feature film. She also wrote and produced the comedy drama film '' Tully'' (2018), reuniting her with ''Young Adult'' star Charlize Theron. The film was directed by Jason Reitman, who previously directed Cody's scripts for ''Juno'' and ''Young Adult''. She wrote the script for the

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musical ''

'', based on the

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album of the same name. The musical premiered in November 2019. In August 2020, Cody began working with

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on a screenplay of the singer's life.

Personal life

In her memoir, Cody wrote fondly of her boyfriend "Jonny" (Jon Hunt). They were married from 2004 until 2007, during which time she was known in personal life as Brook Busey-Hunt. On April 6, 2010, Cody announced that she was expecting her first child with her husband Dan Maurio, who worked on ''

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'', on which Cody also appeared frequently as a "roundtable" guest. The couple married in the summer of 2009. Their son was born in 2010. Cody had her second child in 2012. , Cody and Maurio have three children. As of 2008, Cody resides in Los Angeles. Cody is a friend of screenwriters

(''

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'', ''

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'') and

('' Hustlers'') and they often write their screenplays together in order to get advice from one another. In light of Georgia’s 2019 anti-abortion law, Cody stated that she has regretted writing ''Juno'', as critics have perceived it as an

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film. Cody is a lifelong

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enthusiast and has a tattoo of the

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at San Diego’s Belmont Park on her right arm.

Filmography

Film

Television

Acting roles

Podcasts

Awards and nominations

References

Notes Sources
Interview with Diablo Cody
about JUNO at the Telluride Film Festival, September 10, 2007
Reitman and Cody, Consorting with 'Juno'
- interviewed on NPR's ''Fresh Air'', December 6, 2007
Diablo Cody for Jennifer's Body

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interview, September 15, 2009
City Pages interview with Diablo Cody
December 26, 2007

''The New York Times'', December 2, 2007

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