Susannah Grant

Writer, Erin Brockovich, The Soloist, In Her Shoes | Research Methods for Writers

SUSANNAH GRANT earned an Academy Award® nomination, a BAFTA nomination and a WGA nomination in 2001 for her screenplay of “Erin Brockovich.”  She also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for “The Soloist,” “In Her Shoes,” “28 Days,” “Ever After,” “Pocahontas,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “The 5th Wave.” In 2007, she wrote and directed “Catch and Release.” 
  
For television, Grant worked as a producer and writer of the Fox series “Party of Five,” which won a Golden Globe Award and a Humanitas Prize.  In 2011, she created and executive produced the CBS series “A Gifted Man.”  In 2016, she wrote and executive produced HBO's “Confirmation,” for which she received an Emmy nomination, a WGA award, and the WGA’s Paul Selvin Award. She is also a writer, director and the show runner of Netflix’s “Unbelievable,” due out in September 2019.  
  
Grant is an alumna of Amherst College and the American Film Institute, and received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting. In 2011, Grant received the Valentine Davies Award from the Writers Guild of America.