Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian television actress, producer, and writer. She was a writer and producer for the

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drama '' Breaking Bad'' and the creator of two television series, ''

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'' and ''

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'' (titled ''Anne'' during the first season). For her work on ''Breaking Bad'', she won three

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s, including Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, three Writers Guild of America Awards, two

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s, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody.

Early life

Walley-Beckett was raised in

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, Canada, and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts. In 1982, she joined the

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Career

Walley-Beckett worked from the mid-1980s until the early-2000s as a television actress. She guest-starred on many series, including ''

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'', '' 21 Jump Street'', '' Wiseguy'', '' Chicago Hope'', ''

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'' and '' ER''. She began writing for television in 2007 as a staff writer for the short-lived

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detective drama ''

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'', starring Jeff Goldblum. In 2008 she joined the writing staff for the legal drama ''

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'' and penned the episode "Heal the Pain". She joined '' Breaking Bad'' as a story editor for the second season and wrote the episodes " Breakage" and "

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". The second season writing staff were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season. She was promoted to co-producer for the third season in 2010 and wrote the episodes " Mas" and (with

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) " Fly." She was promoted again to producer for the fourth season in 2011. For the fifth season, Walley-Beckett wrote "

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" and "Ozymandias"; the latter received universal praise from critics, and has since been called one of the greatest episodes of television ever broadcast. On August 25, 2014 she won the

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for "Ozymandias", becoming the first solo woman to win the award in the Drama category since Ann Biderman won in 1994. After ''Breaking Bad'' ended, Walley-Beckett, a former ballet dancer, created the ballet drama miniseries ''Flesh and Bone'' for Starz. The show premiered in November 2015. In January 2016, it was announced that Walley-Beckett would create, write and executive produce a television series based on children's classic '' Anne of Green Gables'' for Canada's CBC.

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came aboard in August to distribute the show internationally. The series, ''

'' (titled ''Anne'' during the first season) aired on CBC in Canada and was later made available for streaming on

. The series premiered on March 19, 2017, on CBC and on May 12 internationally. It was renewed for a second season on August 3, 2017, and for a third season in August 2018. Shortly after the third season was released in Fall 2019, CBC and Netflix announced that the series was canceled. She wrote the 2018 film ''

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'' alongside '' Justified'' creator

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, directed by

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Filmography

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