American women screenwriters

Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)

American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series The X-Files, socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film The House of Mirth (2000), DSU Stella Gibson in the BBC/RTÉ crime drama television series The Fall, sex therapist Jean Milburn in the Netflix comedy-drama Sex Education, and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of Netflix drama series The Crown. Among other honors, she has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has resided in London since 2002, after earlier years divided between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress and writer. She rose to international fame for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the American television sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The series earned her Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, American Comedy and TV Guide awards. Phoebe has since been named one of the greatest television characters of all time and is considered to be Kudrow's breakout role, spawning her successful film career.

American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright

Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American filmmaker. Her accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

American actress and comedian

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)

Dutch-American political activist and author

American film director and writer (1941–2012)

American actress and comedian (born 1982)

American filmmaker (born 1971)

American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)

American actress

French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer

American actress and comedian (born 1973)

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

American film directors, screenwriters, and producers

American writer (1934-2021)

Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress. She began her career on television during the 1970s before making her film breakthrough in the teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). She received critical praise for her performances in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Miami Blues (1990), Backdraft (1991), Single White Female (1992), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). For her role as fugitive Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight (2015), she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)

American actress

American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy. In 2025, she created the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter.

American actress and writer (1896–1985)

American comedian, actress, and writer

German-born British-American author (1927-2013)

American television producer, television and film writer, and author

American actress and comedian (born 1952)

American actress and comedian

American comedian and actress (born 1981)

American actress

American actress, director and screenwriter (born 1979)

American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer (born 1937)

American author and critic

American actress

Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress and television producer (1888-1981)

American actress and writer

American actress (1893–1930)

American pornographic actress

American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host

Canadian-born American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer of Greek descent

American aviator, screenwriter (1875-1912)

American film director, screenwriter and architect

American film director

American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian (b. 1932)

American film director

Empresaria, Chica reality (1989)

American film director (born 1971)

American performance artist, musician and writer (born 1974)

American actress, screenwriter and producer

American screenwriter and author (born 1978)

American pornographic actress and director

novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist (born 1944)

American novelist and screenwriter (1915–1978)