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'' (2009–2013), and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series for an episode of ''

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''. She created, wrote, and produced the Showtime drama '' Ray Donovan''.

Early years

Biderman grew up in Florida and New York. When she was sixteen, she attended boarding school at The Stockbridge School, in the

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in Massachusetts, where she was very interested in the arts. Biderman and her sister spent much of their youth in the company of writers, artists and musicians when living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where “

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was the boy next door” and her mother Peggy Biderman's home in Miami was a sort of halfway house for civil rights activists recently out of prison. Filmmaker

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and poet

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were close family friends. Biderman lived for most of the 1980s with French filmmaker

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Career

Biderman adapted the novel ''

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'' into the screenplay of the 1997

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. In the 2008-09 television season, Biderman developed the police drama series ''

'', which aired as a midseason replacement for NBC. The series focuses on patrol officers and detectives in South Los Angeles. Biderman wrote the pilot episode, and served as an executive producer for the first season alongside John Wells and

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. She wrote the episodes "Mozambique," "See the Woman," "Sally in the Alley" (with consulting producer

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) and "Derailed." ''Southland'' was renewed for a second season and Biderman remained an executive producer and writer. NBC reversed the decision and cancelled ''Southland'' after six episodes had been produced. The series was then picked up by the TNT network, and the previously-produced episodes were aired as the show's second season. Biderman co-wrote the second-season premiere "Phase Three" with Wells and wrote the episode "U-Boat." TNT renewed the series for a third season but dramatically reduced its production budget. Biderman stepped down as executive producer but remained an executive consultant. She co-wrote the third-season premiere "Let It Snow" with Wells. Biderman created the Showtime series '' Ray Donovan'' in 2013. She served as showrunner during the first season, and wrote several episodes, including the pilot. After the second season, Biderman stepped down as showrunner.

Filmography

Screenplays Production staff Writer

References

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