Michelle King (née Stern; born 1958) is an American television writer and producer. She is married to Robert King, who is also her writing partner. The couple created the legal drama series ''

The Good Wife ''The Good Wife'' is an American legal and political drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2009, to May 8, 2016. It focuses on Alicia Florrick, the wife of the Cook County State's Attorney, who returns to her career in l ...

'', which earned them a Writers Guild of America Award. They have also created the comedy-drama '' BrainDead''.

Early life

Michelle 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 ...

. Her family are

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

survivors. She met Robert in 1983 when as a senior at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

she worked part-time at FrontRunners athletic shoe store. The couple married in 1987. They have one daughter, Sophia.

Career

Michelle King, with her husband, co-created the short-lived drama series ''

In Justice ''In Justice'' is an American police procedural television series created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006, on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday ...

'' in 2006. The series aired as a mid-season replacement on ABC. As well as the pilot, King co-wrote the episode "Golden Boy". The series was not renewed after completing a thirteen episode first season. The Kings co-created a second legal drama series entitled ''

''. They served as executive producers for the series. As well as the pilot episode they co-wrote the episodes "Stripped", "Unorthodox", "Hi", and twelve other episodes. King and the writing staff were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series for ''The Good Wife''. Michelle King with her husband Robert also created and produced the thriller drama series '' BrainDead'', which aired on

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

from June 13, 2016 to October 17, 2016 before it was cancelled. The couple then returned as showrunners on ''

'' spin-off ''

The Good Fight ''The Good Fight'' is an American legal drama produced for CBS's streaming service CBS All Access (later Paramount+). It is the platform's first original scripted series. The series, created by Robert King, Michelle King, and Phil Alden Robin ...

''. In September 2019 their horror thriller series ''

Evil Evil, in a general sense, is defined as the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness and against common good. It is general ...

'' began airing on CBS.

Filmography

Television

Awards and nominations

King has received several nominations for her work on ''The Good Wife,'' including Best New Series from the Writers Guild of America Award, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series from the Primetime Emmy Awards.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Michelle 1958 births Living people American television producers American women television producers American television writers American women television writers Place of birth missing (living people) Showrunners Writers Guild of America Award winners 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women writers Jewish American screenwriters 21st-century American Jews