Moira Walley-Beckett

Moira Walley-Beckett
Born	Canada
Occupation	Television, film writer
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	Screenwriting
Notable works	Breaking Bad

Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian-born, American-based television actress, producer and writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Breaking Bad as a writer and producer and has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series as well as being nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for her work on the series. She is the creator of television series Flesh and Bone.

Early life

Walley-Beckett was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.^[1] In 1982, she joined the Arts Club Theatre Company.^[2]

Career

Walley-Beckett worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a television actress. She had guest starring roles on many different series.

Walley-Beckett began writing for television in 2007 as a staff writer for a short-lived NBC detective drama Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum. In 2008 she joined the writing staff for the legal drama Eli Stone and penned the episode "Heal the Pain".

She joined the crew of Breaking Bad as a story editor for the second season and wrote the episodes "Breakage" ^[3] and "Over".^[4] The second season writing staff were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season.^[5] She was promoted to co-producer for the third season in 2010 and wrote the episodes "Mas"^[6] and (with Sam Catlin) "Fly." She was promoted again to producer for the fourth season in 2011. For the fifth season, Walley-Beckett wrote "Gliding Over All" and "Ozymandias"; the latter received universal praise from critics, and has since been called one of the greatest episodes of television ever broadcast. On August 25, 2014 she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Ozymandias", becoming the first solo woman to win the award in the Drama category since Ann Biderman won in 1994.^[7]

Filmography

Production staff

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2015	Flesh and Bone	Creator	Season 1
2011–12	Pan Am	Producer	Season 1
2013	Breaking Bad	Producer	Season 5
2012			Season 5
2011			Season 4
2010		Co-producer	Season 3
2009		Story editor	Season 2

Writer

Year	Show	Season	Episode title	Episode	Notes
2017	Anne	1
2012	Pan Am	1	"Romance Languages"	13
2011			"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"	9	co-wrote with Lydia Woodward
2011			"Eastern Exposure"	4	co-wrote with Jack Orman
2013	Breaking Bad	5	"Ozymandias"	14
2012		5	"Gliding Over All"	8
2011		4	"End Times"	12	co-wrote with Thomas Schnauz
			"Bug"	9	co-wrote with Thomas Schnauz
			"Bullet Points"	4
2010		3	"Fly"	10	co-wrote with Sam Catlin
2010		3	"Mas"^[6]	5
2009		2	"Over"^[4]	10
2009		2	"Breakage"^[3]	5
2008	Eli Stone	1	"Heal the Pain"	7	co-wrote with Alex Taub

References

↑ Patch, Nick (July 13, 2014). "Vancouver-raised 'Breaking Bad' scribe celebrates Emmy nod for beloved episode". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
↑ Leiren-Young, Mark (March 11, 2014). "ARTS CLUB ANNIVERSARY ESSAY: "THE ARTS CLUB ON SCREEN"" (PDF). Arts Club.
1 2 Johan Renck (director); Moira Walley-Becket (writer) (2009-04-05). "Breakage". Breaking Bad. Season 2. Episode 5. AMC.
1 2 Phil Abraham (director); Moira Walley-Becket (writer) (2009-05-10). "Over". Breaking Bad. Season 2. Episode 10. AMC.
↑ "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
1 2 Johan Renck (director); Moira Walley-Becket (writer) (2010-04-18). "Mas". Breaking Bad. Season 3. Episode 5. AMC.
↑ Alter, Charlotte (August 26, 2014). "Vince Gilligan Thought True Detective Would Win the Emmy for Best Drama". Time. Retrieved August 26, 2014.

External links

Moira Walley-Beckett at the Internet Movie Database

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

1955–1975	Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955) Rod Serling (1960) Rod Serling (1961) Reginald Rose (1962) Robert Thom / Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" and Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work"(1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969) Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975)

1976–2000	Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979) Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) Tom Fontana, John Masius, John Ford Noonan for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius, Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis, Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989) David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov / Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) Stephen Gaghan / David Milch / Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) Bill Clark / Nicholas Wootton / David Milch for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) David Chase / James Manos Jr. for "College" (1999) Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)

2000–present	Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001) Robert Cochran / Joel Surnow for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002) Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003) Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004) David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005) Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006) David Chase for "Made in America" (2007) Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008) Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009) Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010) Jason Katims for "Always" (2011) Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot (Homeland)" (2012) Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013) Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015) David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 305944886 LCCN: no2013141278

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