Diablo Cody is an Academy Award-winning blogger and writer. She started out working as a stripper and wrote her first memoir entitled Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper. In 2007 she wrote the screenplay for the film Juno, for which she won the 2008 Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Her television series United States of Tara debuts in 2009.
During the Television Critics Association tour representatives from the network The CW announced that Cody will have a guest starring role on the program 90210.BuzzSugar: 90210 Fangirl Diablo Cody (January 14, 2009)
Diablo Cody is set to produce S. G. Browne's forthcoming novel Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. The screenplay will be adapted by Geoff LaTulippe. Cinematical: Diablo Cody Grabs Another Horror Story
Notable Projects
- 2007: Juno
- 2008: Jennifer's Body
- 2009: United States of Tara
Quotes
"I think teenage girls deserve a better shake in cinema. 'God knows people might say the dialogue in Juno is too stylized, but I've met so many hyperarticulate teenage girls who are not just shallow and image-obsessed."—Diablo CodyEntertainment Weekly: Diablo Cody: From Ex-Stripper to A-Lister (November 9, 2007)
On being picked by Spielberg to write for The United States of Tara:
- "I've never met him in person. Isn't that awesome? It's like Charlie's Angels. So we had the call, and he said, 'Okay, go write it.' I walked outside and just went numb. E.T. is the first film I ever saw in the theater. I sank down to the curb and put my head between my knees."—Diablo CodyEntertainment Weekly: Diablo Cody: From Ex-Stripper to A-Lister (November 9, 2007)
