Jill Soloway Biography

The daughter of a public relations consultant and a psychiatrist, Jill Soloway grew up near the south side of Chicago, one of the few Jewish students at a predominantly black school.

Soloway attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied film and television. After college, Soloway worked in Chicago as a production assistant on a variety of music video and commercial shoots. Her sister Faith collaborated with her on a number of projects including a 1991 live parody of "The Brady Bunch" that starred a pair of rising young Chicago improv actors, Andy Richter and Jane Lynch, as Mike and Carol Brady. "The Real Live Brady Bunch" proved successful enough to inspire the equally satirical "The Brady Bunch Movie" (1995), although the Soloway sisters were not affiliated with the film.

Soloway moved to Los Angeles where she wrote for a sitcom and short stories. Her don't hold anything back style of writing was noticed by "Six Feet Under" creator Alan Ball and he subsequently hired Soloway as a writer on the show in 2002. She wrote on the show for four seasons and was ultimately an Executive Producer by the time of the show's conclusion.

She then moved to the big screen with her first feature film "Afternoon Delight" (2014). Returning to television, she created the critically acclaimed series "Transparent" (Amazon Streaming 2014- ), the story of a family of siblings coping with the revelation that their father is going through gender transition. The series was inspired by Soloway's own experience, as her father revealed himself to be transgender in 2011. The show has been at the forefront of the transgender conversation and it was awarded "Best Comedy" at the 2015 Golden Globes.

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