Rina Mimoun is an American

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and producer.

Career

Mimoun's career began at the age of 21 with a

Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers: * The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO * The Writers Guil ...

internship on the Fox comedy ''

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'' and a first staff writer job on the UPN sitcom ''

Guys Like Us ''Guys Like Us'' is an American sitcom created by Dan Schneider for the UPN channel. It was Schneider's first creator credit. The series aired from October 5, 1998 to January 18, 1999, and it starred Bumper Robinson, Maestro Harrell, and Chris H ...

''. She scored her big break when then-''

Dawson's Creek ''Dawson's Creek'' is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran from 1998 to 2003. T ...

'' showrunner

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hired her as a writer on the teen drama series. Mimoun has also written for '' Jack & Jill'', ''

'', ''

Everwood ''Everwood'' (known as ''Our New Life in Everwood'' in the United Kingdom) is an American drama television series created by Greg Berlanti. Berlanti, Mickey Liddell, Rina Mimoun, Andrew A. Ackerman and Michael Green served as executive producer ...

'', ''

Gilmore Girls ''Gilmore Girls'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore) and Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore). The show debuted on October 5, 2000, on The WB and became a flagshi ...

'', ''

Pushing Daisies ''Pushing Daisies'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007, to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life ...

'', '' Eastwick'', and ''

Hart of Dixie ''Hart of Dixie'' is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from September 26, 2011, to March 27, 2015. The series, created by Leila Gerstein, stars Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, a New Yorker who, after her dreams of b ...

''. She served as a supervising producer on ''Everwood'' for the first 12 episodes of season 1. She was made a co-executive producer for the rest of season 1 and the entirety of season 2. She became an executive producer and the

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for seasons 3 and 4 after creator Greg Berlanti left the series. Mimoun developed and executive-produced '' Privileged'' for The CW Television Network, based on the

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novel ''How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls''. Mimoun serves as an executive producer on ''

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'', an American remake of the 2008–2010 British series of the same name.

Personal life

Mimoun has been married to actor

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since 2008; together they have a son, who was born in 2009. Mimoun is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mimoun, Rina Living people American women television writers American television writers American television producers Jewish American actresses American women television producers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women