Aline Brosh McKenna

Aline Brosh McKenna
McKenna at the 2008 Screenwriting Expo in the Los Angeles Convention Center
Born	Aline Brosh August 2, 1967 France
Occupation	Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Period	Contemporary
Notable works	The Devil Wears Prada 27 Dresses

Aline Brosh McKenna (born August 2, 1967) is an American screenwriter.

Life and career

Aline Brosh was born in France and moved with her family to New Jersey, where she lived variously in Fort Lee, Demarest and Montvale, and attended Saddle River Day School in Saddle River, New Jersey.^[1]

She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, and went to New York City to seek a job in publishing. While there, she did some freelance writing work. A script she wrote during a six-week course in screenwriting at New York University helped her get an agent, and she later moved to Los Angeles, where she has seen several of her screenplays produced. She also wrote an episode of Margaret Cho's sitcom All American Girl.

Filmography as a screenwriter

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Three to Tango	Co-writer	Screenplay only, written with Rodney Patrick Vaccaro
2004	Laws of Attraction	Co-writer	Written with Robert Harling
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Writer	Nominated for BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2008	27 Dresses	Writer
2010	Morning Glory	Writer
2011	I Don't Know How She Does It	Writer, executive producer	Based on the novel by Allison Pearson
2011	We Bought a Zoo	Co-writer	Written with Cameron Crowe, based on We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
2014	Annie	Co-writer	Written with Will Gluck, based on Annie by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan and Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	All-American Girl	Writer	Episode: "Young Americans"
2015	Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	Co-creator	Also Executive Producer

References

1. Salemi, Vicki. "Glorifying Jersey: A noted Hollywood screenwriter uses her Jersey roots to help inform her storytelling.", New Jersey Monthly, December 13, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2011. "“It’s definitely part of who I am,” says the Los Angeles-based scribe, who was born in France and moved with her family to Fort Lee when she was 6 months old. The family later moved to Demarest and then Montvale, where she lived from age seven until college. Brosh McKenna, now 43, attended Saddle River Day School, studied literature at Harvard and, after graduation, co-wrote A Co-Ed’s Companion with her college roommate."

External links

• Aline Brosh McKenna at the Internet Movie Database
• Aline Brosh McKenna: Screenwriting Lecture part of the BAFTA Screenwriters on Screenwriting series
• If Cinderella Had a Blackberry..., nytimes.com, August 25, 2011