Writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino is probably best known as the creator of the massively popular TV dramedy Gilmore Girls. Sherman-Palladino began her career as a producer and staff writer on the sitcom Roseanne in 1990, and her work would be the basis for much of the show's most critically acclaimed material, including an Emmy-nominated storyline about birth control. She would go on to write and produce projects like Veronica's Closet and The Return of Jezebel James.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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- Her surname Sherman is actually her father's stage name as a comedian.
- Trained as a dancer from age 4; received a callback for a touring company of the musical Cats, but decided to join the writing staff of Roseanne instead.
- Based the setting of Gilmore Girls on a small Connecticut town where she had vacationed—the inn had a pumpkin patch and patrons at the local diner went behind the counter for coffee.
- Has never watched the final season of Gilmore Girls; she and her husband Dan left the show over an impasse with the CW network following Season 6.