- Cody is the founder of the Gifford Media Group, a multimedia development, production and intellectual property management company. A WGA screenwriter and a producer of film and television, he has sold, developed and produced content for some of the entertainment industry's most recognizable brands including HBO Films, Warner Bros. Television, MGM, Thunder Road and Harper Collins. His original screenplay, American Patriot, remains the highest-rated property ever featured by The Black List.
The son of television icons Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, Cody began his career as a script reader at Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions before transitioning to Twentieth Century Fox as a writer's assistant. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts and an alumnus of the University of Oxford, where he wrote for the university's oldest independent newspaper, Cherwell.
He works regularly as a media consultant and is a member of USC's School of Cinematic Arts Leadership Circle.
- IMDb mini biography by: Management
- SpouseErica Brown(September 7, 2020 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenFrank Michael Gifford
- Parents
- RelativesKyle Gifford(Half Sibling)Jeff Gifford(Half Sibling)Victoria Gifford Kennedy(Half Sibling)Cassidy Gifford(Sibling)
- Plays squash and the piano
- Wanted to be in the movie Big Daddy (1999), but his mother rejected the role after reading the script.
- Younger half-brother of Kyle Gifford, Jeff Gifford and Victoria Gifford Kennedy.
- Announced his engagement to college sweetheart Erika Brown on May 13, 2019.
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