- Moira Walley-Beckett
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Moira Walley-Beckett Occupation Television Writer Nationality Canadian Notable work(s) Breaking Bad Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian-born, American-based television actress, producer and writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Breaking Bad as a writer and producer and has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for her work on the series.
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Biography
Walley-Beckett worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a television actress. She had guest starring roles on many different series.
Walley-Beckett began writing for television in 2007 as a staff writer for a short-lived NBC detective drama called "Raines" starring Jeff Goldblum. In 2008 she joined the writing staff for the legal drama Eli Stone and penned the episode "Heal the Pain".
She joined the crew of Breaking Bad as a story editor for the second season and wrote the episodes "Breakage" [1] and "Over".[2] 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.[3] She was promoted to co-producer for the third season in 2010 and wrote the episodes "Mas"[4] and (with Sam Catlin) "Fly." She was promoted again to producer for the fourth season in 2011.
Filmography
Production staff
Year Show Role Notes 2011 Breaking Bad Producer Season 4 2010 Co-producer Season 3 2009 Story editor Season 2 Writer
Year Show Season Episode title Episode Notes 2011 Breaking Bad 4 "End Times" 12 co-wrote with Thomas Schnauz "Bug" 9 "Bullet Points" 4 2010 3 "Fly" 10 co-wrote with Sam Catlin "Mas"[4] 5 2009 2 "Over"[2] 10 "Breakage"[1] 5 2008 Eli Stone 1 "Heal the Pain" 7 References
- ^ a b "Breakage". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 4/5/2009. No. 5, season 2.
- ^ a b "Over". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 5/10/2009. No. 10, season 2.
- ^ "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
- ^ a b "Mas". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 4/18/2010. No. 5, season 3.
External links
Moira Walley-Beckett at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- American screenwriters
- American television actors
- American television writers
- Canadian expatriate actors in the United States
- Living people
- Women television writers
- American actor stubs
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