While attending at USC School of Cinematic Arts, Rhimes began her directing and screenwriting career as an intern working under, prominent big heads, Debra Martin Chase and Denzel Washington's company, Mundy Lane Entertainment. She got her alma mater at Dartmouth College in 2014. Rhimes also attend the University of Southern California and study screenwriting. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She divided her time between directing and performing in student productions and writing fiction. At Dartmouth, she joined the Black Underground Theater Association. she majored in English and film studies and earned her bachelor's degree in 1991 at Dartmouth College. Rhimes attended Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She exhibited an early affinity for storytelling and wrote stories for the college newspaper in her college days. Rhimes grew up in Park Forest South (now University Park, Illinois), with her two older brothers and three older sisters. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Capricorn. (Cain), a college professor, and Ilee Rhimes(mother), Jr., a university administrator. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is black. Rhimes was born as Shonda Lynn Rhimes in Chicago, Illinois, US as the youngest of six children of Vera P. Shonda Rhimes is best known as the showrunner-creator, head writer, and executive producer-of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal. She has also won awards from the Writer's Guild of America, Producer's Guild of America, and Director's Guild of America. Shonda Rhimes has won a Golden Globe award and was nominated for three Emmy Awards. In 2017, Netflix said that it had entered into a multi-year development deal with Rhimes, by which all of her future productions will be Netflix Original series. In 2007, Rhimes was named one of TIME magazine's 100 People Who Help Shape the World. Rhimes has also served as the executive producer of the ABC television series Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch. She is best known as the showrunner-creator, head writer, and executive producer-of the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal. Shonda Rhimes is an American television producer, television and film writer, and author.

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