Moira Walley-Beckett

Moira Walley-Beckett

Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian born television actress , screenwriter, and producer . She won several Emmys and WGA awards for her work on the AMC cable series Breaking Bad .

Career

Moira Walley-Beckett grew up in Vancouver and began her dance career at the age of three. In her early childhood she took lessons in jazz and ballet, the latter to this day. Walley-Beckett attended the Banff School of Fine Arts , danced professionally for several years, then switched to music theater and played in more than 30 theater productions. She moved to Los Angeles in her 20s to pursue her acting career. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, Moira Walley-Beckett worked as a television actress, primarily in the USA. During this time she made guest appearances in over 30 television productions. She had her first television appearance in 1984 in the television film Secrets of a Married Man with the actors William Shatner , Michelle Phillips and Cybill Shepherd . From 1988 to 1990 she had her first long story arc in the Canadian television series Strandpiraten .

In 2007, Moira Walley-Beckett began working as a screenwriter for the short-lived NBC drama series Raines, with Jeff Goldblum in the lead role. In 2008 she wrote a screenplay for the ABC musical series Eli Stone with Alex Taub . In 2009 she began writing the second season for the AMC television series Breaking Bad . By the end of the series in 2013, she was working on episodes in the writer's room and wrote a total of nine episodes of the television series. Among other things, she wrote the episode Endzeit with Thomas Schnauz , which received a 2012 nomination for the WGA Award of the Writers Guild of America for best drama episode. Walley-Beckett is also responsible for the episode Ozymandias , which, according to showrunner Vince Gilligan , is the show 's highlight and received an Emmy for Best Screenplay. Walley-Beckett won two other Emmys, three WGA awards and a PGA award with Breaking Bad . While still at Breaking Bad , she worked on the ABC television series Pan Am from 2011 to 2012 , for which she wrote three episodes. After the television series Breaking Bad ended , she developed her own television series, Flesh and Bone , for Starz , a dark drama about ballet that was released in November 2015. Her Canadian television series Anne with an E , based on the novel Anne on Green Gables , has been released on CBC Television in Canada and on Netflix in the US since 2017 . In 2018 the feature film The Grizzlies , for which Walley-Beckett wrote the script, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival .

Filmography

As an actress

• 1984: Secrets of a Married Man (TV movie)
• 1984: Runaway - Spiders of death (Runaway)
• 1985: How do I tell my parents (TV movie)
• 1986: Danger Bay (TV series, episode 1x07)
• 1986: Firefighter (TV movie)
• 1987: Stingray (TV series, episode 2x08)
• 1987: 21 Jump Street - crime scene classroom ( 21 Jump Street , TV series, episode 2x06)
• 1987: The Gunfighters (TV movie)
• 1987: The New Adventures of Beans Baxter (TV series, episode 1x14)
• 1988: A Lady Called Laura ( Laura Lansing Slept Here , Movie made for TV)
• 1988: MacGyver (TV series, episode 3x19)
• 1988: Diamonds (TV series, episode 1x22)
• 1988: Fight against the Mafia ( Wiseguy , TV series, episode 2x01)
• 1988–1990: Beach Pirates ( The Beachcombers , TV series, 3 episodes)
• 1989: Jake and McCabe - Through thick and thin ( Jake and the Fatman , TV series, episode 3x01)
• 1990: Fire on board Flight 1501 ( Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 , TV movie)
• 1991–1992: Tropical Heat ( Sweating Bullets , TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1992: Highlander (TV series, episode 1x11)
• 1996: Diagnosis: Murder ( Diagnosis Murder , TV series, episode 3x14)
• 1997: Lost on Earth (TV series, episode 1x10)
• 1997 Pretender ( The Pretender , TV series, episode 1x18)
• 1997: Riot (TV movie)
• 1997: Chicago Hope ( Chicago Hope , TV series, episode 4x08)
• 1997: Rockford: Detective in the Spotlight ( The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda , TV movie)
• 1998: Mike Hammer, Private Eye (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1999: Emergency Room ( ER , TV series, episode 5x21)
• 1999: Two-Eleven
• 2000: Seven Days - Das Tor zur Zeit ( Seven Days , TV series, episode 2x23)
• 2000: Higher Ground (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2000: Practice - The Lawyers ( The Practice , TV series, episode 5x09)
• 2001: New York Cops - NYPD Blue ( NYPD Blue , TV series, episode 8x09)
• 2001: The Swinging Nutcracker (TV movie)
• 2002: Philly (TV series, episode 1x22)

As a screenwriter

• 2007: Raines (TV series)
• 2008: Eli Stone (TV series)
• 2009-2013: Breaking Bad (TV series)
• 2011–2012: Pan Am (TV series)
• 2015: Flesh and Bone (TV series)
• since 2017: Anne with an E (TV series)
• 2018: The Grizzlies

Awards

Moira Walley-Beckett won numerous awards for her work as a screenwriter on the television series Breaking Bad . Among other things, she won three WGA awards and three Emmys , including the 2015 Screenplay Emmy for the Breaking Bad episode Ozymandias.

Tabular overview of awards and nominations
year	Award	For	category	result
2010	Writers Guild of America Award	Breaking Bad	Drama Series	Nominated
2011			Drama Series	Nominated
			Dramatic Series	Nominated
2012		Breaking Bad, Episode 4x12 End Time	Episodic drama	Nominated
		Breaking Bad	Dramatic Series	Won
2013			Dramatic Series	Won
2014			Drama Series	Won
2013	Producers Guild of America Award	Breaking Bad	Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama	Nominated
2014				Won
2015				Won
2012	Emmy	Breaking Bad	Outstanding Drama Series	Nominated
2013				Won
2014				Won
		Breaking Bad, Episode 5x14 Ozymandias	Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series	Won

Web links

• Moira Walley-Beckett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography of Starz (PDF, 246 kB, English)
• CTV News (July 2014): Vancouver-raised 'Breaking Bad' scribe celebrates Emmy nod for beloved episode (English)
• Kessler University (January 2014): Interview with Moira Walley-Beckett (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NBC.com: Raines - About ( Memento March 4, 2007 on the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Deadline.com (Nellie Andreeva, November 29, 2013): Starz Ballet Drama Eyes Green Light With Castings, Choreographer Hire , accessed December 16, 2013.
3. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter (Lesley Goldberg, January 26, 2014): Ballet Drama 'Flesh and Bone' Ordered to Series at Starz , accessed February 2, 2014.