Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter, producer, and activist. She has been nominated for three

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s and won three

Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility Th ...

s. Her first script, HBO's '' Warm Springs'' received 16 Emmy nominations and won five Emmys in 2005, including the Emmy Award for Best Television Movie. It also won the 2006

for Long Form Original Screenplay. Her screenplay for the 2014 film "

The Good Lie ''The Good Lie'' is a 2014 drama film written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film stars Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, alongside Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, and Corey Stoll. ''The Good Lie'' was ...

" received The Paul Selvin Award from the

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. Nagle also received a 2011 Writer's Guild Award for her work on

Boardwalk Empire ''Boardwalk Empire'' is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era of the 1920s. The series sta ...

. Nagle has been nominated for three Humanitas Awards, an NAACP Award, and the Pen Award. She received the 2014 Media Access Award from the Writers Guild of America for "doubling the number" of people on network TV with

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. Nagle has been raising money for Humanitarian Aid for

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by appearing at screenings of The Good Lie on behalf of Concern,

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, RefugePoint and other organizations.

Career

Nagle wrote the script for ''

'', released in 2014, a movie about the

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, It premiered at 2014 Toronto Film Festival where it received the longest standing ovation in the history of the festival. It was released in 2014 by Warner Brothers. Nagle received the 2015 Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America for ''

''. The award is given each year to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to which Selvin devoted his professional life. Nagle was nominated for Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film for ''The Good Lie'' at the 2015 NAACP AWARDS. Through Thegoodliefund.org the movie has been raising money for humanitarian aid for South Sudan. The film is shown on college campuses through The Enough Project. Nagle received the 2015 Jonathan Daniels Award from the Monadnock International Film Festival celebrating the fusion of artistic merit and social awareness. A former actress, Nagle appeared in ''

My So-Called Life ''My So-Called Life'' is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994 to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High Sch ...

'' as beleaguered biology teacher Ms. Chavatal. Bruce Weber in his ''

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'' review of the show wrote, "Watch out for the faculty members, each astutely idiosyncratic. I especially liked the hopelessly perky science teacher, played by Margaret Nagle, whose style is to lead the class to answers they have no interest in giving: "An experiment must test a what? A hypothesis. And a hypothesis consists of several . . . ? Anybody?" Nagle's first film script, ''Warm Springs'', about FDR's dealing with polio, won the Emmy for Best Movie in 2006. It was also nominated for Best Television Movie by the Golden Globes. Nagle won the 2007 WGA Award for Best Screenplay of a Movie Made for Television for Warm Springs and was nominated for the Pen Award for Best Screenplay of a Television Movie as well as the 2007 Humanitas Prize. Nagle wrote two episodes for Season One of HBO's ''Boardwalk Empire'': "Broadway Limited" and "Anastasia". She was a supervising producer on season one and season two of the show. ''

'' Season One won Best TV Series at the Golden Globes in 2010. Her other work includes the Lifetime show ''Side Order of Life'' in 2007, for which she won a special award from The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Nagle wrote the 2014 pilot for American television of ''

Red Band Society ''Red Band Society'' is an American Teen drama, teen Medical drama, medical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from September 17, 2014, to February 7, 2015. It was developed by Margaret Nagle. Cast and ...

'' for Fox with Amblin TV based on the Catalan TV series of the same name ('' Polseres vermelles'').

Personal

Nagle is named after her great-aunt, modern dance pioneer Margaret Newell H'Doubler. Nagle, who has a brother with a brain injury from a car accident, is involved in furthering rights and visibility for people with disabilities and is on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of Southern California. Nagle received the Media Access Award from the Writers Guild of America for through her work "doubling the number" of people on network TV with disabilities.

Awards

* 2015 Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award for The Good Lie. * 2015 Jonathan Daniels Award from the Monadnock International Film Festival for The Good Lie. * 2014 Writers Guild of America Evan Somers Media Access Award for body of work. * Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Show 2011 for

. * Television Academy Honors 2007 award for One hour Series writing/producing for "Side Order of Life" with Dick Wolf for "Law and Order" and David Kelley for "

Boston Legal ''Boston Legal'' is an American legal comedy drama television series created by former lawyer and Boston native David E. Kelley, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, to Decem ...

." *Won the Writers Guild Award for Best Original Television Movie 2006 for '' Warm Springs''.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagle, Margaret American film producers American television producers American women television producers Writers Guild of America Award winners American women screenwriters Living people American women television writers American television writers Year of birth missing (living people)