There, she continued to develop her creativity, writing fiction and graduating in 1991 with a degree in English literature. In high school she volunteered to work as a candy striper at a nearby hospital, delivering flowers and food to patients and helping care for the newborn babies, always interested in the stories of human lives.ĭuring the late 1980s Rhimes entered Dartmouth, a respected Ivy League college in New Hampshire.
Rhimes's whole family loved telling stories, and she soon became an avid reader and an even more passionate storyteller, spinning her yarns into a tape recorder before she could write them down herself. Mary's, then at Marian Catholic High School. Rhimes attended public school there until fourth grade, when she entered Catholic school, first at St. When Rhimes was three years old, her family left the city of Chicago and moved to the nearby suburb of Park Forest South (now University Park). She then returned to school, earned a doctoral degree in education and began work as a university professor. Her father worked as a university administrator, and her mother worked at home caring for her family until her children were grown. Shonda Lynn Rhimes was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 13, 1970, the youngest of six children. Peopled with complex women and men from a variety of cultural backgrounds, the series drew a dedicated audience of nearly twenty million viewers.
Grey's Anatomy introduced a level of casting diversity that had been previously unknown on prime-time television. However, as the first African-American woman to create and produce a top-ten series on network television, Rhimes made a much greater contribution to the entertainment industry than simply sharing her childhood flair for invention and drama. By the time she was thirty-five, Rhimes had become one of the hottest writers in Hollywood, with several films and a top-ranked television series to her credit. At the age of four, Rhimes was already inventing stories and reciting them into a tape recorder for her mother to write down. Shonda Rhimes is an award-winning film and television writer, director, and executive producer who is best known as the creator of the popular television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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