Meaghan Oppenheimer
Meaghan Oppenheimer is an American television and movie screenwriter, producer, and former actor.
Early life and education
Meaghan Oppenheimer grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was a child actor, working in various regional theatre productions and television shows. She graduated from Holland Hall, and then New [York University Tisch School of the Arts|New York University—Tisch School of the Arts] in 2009. Afterward, she relocated to Los Angeles to begin a screenwriting career.Career
In 2010, Oppenheimer wrote and starred in Hot Mess, a film about two roommates who become friends with benefits. She has written screenplays for projects including Fear the Walking Dead.Her unproduced screenplay, The Remains, was selected for the 2013 Black List (survey)|Black List], an annual survey of the "most liked" screenplays not yet made into films.
She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2015 film We Are Your Friends with filmmaker Max Joseph.
In December 2015, ABC announced that Reese Witherspoon would produce a new television series written by Oppenheimer, with the working title Please Don't Go, about the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas whose past continues to haunt her. In March 2016, ABC announced that Penelope Ann Miller had been cast opposite T. R. Knight in the project that in 2016 was released as Broken—a series pilot that halted production after the first episode aired.
In 2018, Oppenheimer wrote the script for the Facebook Watch TV show, Queen America.
Oppenheimer adapted Carola Lovering's novel Tell Me Lies into a Hulu series of the same name, which was released in 2022 and received positive reviews. She also served as co-executive producer and showrunner of the series, which starred Grace Van Patten and Jackson White. Her husband, Tom Ellis, starred in the second season.