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Janet Tamaro

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Janet Tamaro accepting WIN award, 2011
Janet Tamaro is a writer, show runner and series creator. She created "Rizzoli & Isles," TNT's long-running, hit female cop show. She served as EP/show runner for 4 seasons and was named one of Variety's Top 50 show runners three years in a row. She has sold multiple pilots: to Amazon, 20th/Fox, Lifetime and HBO. Her current projects include the suspense-thriller one-hour dramatic series, "Hawk" (based on the Dean Koontz "Jane Hawk" book series) with Anonymous Content and Paramount TV Studios, and "The Gulf," based on her original screenplay for Lifetime. Tamaro was a police reporter and a television correspondent before becoming a screenwriter. She covered national news for ABC News, among other news outlets. In addition to covering crime stories, she reported and produced national investigative stories and won several journalism awards for her work. Tamaro has a B.A. from Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. She's the author of the best-selling parenting book, "So That's What They're For!"
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Known for

    Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander in Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
    Rizzoli & Isles
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Producer
    David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)
    Bones
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Producer
    Naveen Andrews, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Daniel Dae Kim, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Watros, Maggie Grace, and Evangeline Lilly in Lost (2004)
    Lost
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Writer
    Oded Fehr and Michael Ealy in Sleeper Cell (2005)
    Sleeper Cell
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Producer

    Credits

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    Producer



    • Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander in Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
      Rizzoli & Isles
      7.7
      TV Series
      • executive consultant
      • executive producer (showrunner)
      • 2010–2015
    • Cliff Curtis, Derek Luke, and Scottie Thompson in Trauma (2009)
      Trauma
      7.7
      TV Series
      • supervising producer
      • 2009–2010
    • David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)
      Bones
      7.8
      TV Series
      • supervising producer
      • 2006–2008
    • Sean Bean in Faceless (2006)
      Faceless
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • consulting producer
      • 2006
    • Oded Fehr and Michael Ealy in Sleeper Cell (2005)
      Sleeper Cell
      7.9
      TV Series
      • producer
      • 2005
    • Line of Fire (2003)
      Line of Fire
      7.4
      TV Series
      • co-producer
      • 2003–2005
    • Gary Sinise and Sela Ward in CSI: NY (2004)
      CSI: NY
      7.0
      TV Series
      • co-producer
      • 2004
    • Ray J, Russell Wong, Sarah Carter, Corey Sevier, and Missy Peregrym in Black Sash (2003)
      Black Sash
      7.5
      TV Series
      • executive story editor
      • 2003
    • Sally Field, Chris Sarandon, Diahann Carroll, Pat Hingle, and Miguel Sandoval in The Court (2002)
      The Court
      5.1
      TV Series
      • assistant story editor
      • 2002

    Writer



    • Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander in Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
      Rizzoli & Isles
      7.7
      TV Series
      • developed by
      • written by
      • teleplay by ...
      • 2010–2016
    • Cliff Curtis, Derek Luke, and Scottie Thompson in Trauma (2009)
      Trauma
      7.7
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2009–2010
    • David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones (2005)
      Bones
      7.8
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2006–2008
    • Oded Fehr and Michael Ealy in Sleeper Cell (2005)
      Sleeper Cell
      7.9
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2005
    • Line of Fire (2003)
      Line of Fire
      7.4
      TV Series
      • writer
      • 2004–2005
    • Naveen Andrews, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Daniel Dae Kim, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Terry O'Quinn, Harold Perrineau, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Watros, Maggie Grace, and Evangeline Lilly in Lost (2004)
      Lost
      8.3
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2005
    • Gary Sinise and Sela Ward in CSI: NY (2004)
      CSI: NY
      7.0
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2004
    • Ray J, Russell Wong, Sarah Carter, Corey Sevier, and Missy Peregrym in Black Sash (2003)
      Black Sash
      7.5
      TV Series
      • teleplay
      • written by
      • executive story editor ...
      • 2003
    • Scott Bairstow, Clancy Brown, Tim Matheson, Paul Adelstein, Myndy Crist, Samantha Ferris, Vincent Gale, Rowena King, Jeffrey D. Sams, and Lisa Ann Walter in Breaking News (2002)
      Breaking News
      6.0
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2002
    • Sally Field, Chris Sarandon, Diahann Carroll, Pat Hingle, and Miguel Sandoval in The Court (2002)
      The Court
      5.1
      TV Series
      • writer
      • written by
      • 2002
    • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
      Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
      8.1
      TV Series
      • written by
      • 2000

    Additional Crew



    • Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander in Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
      Rizzoli & Isles
      7.7
      TV Series
      • executive consultant
      • 2015–2016
    • Sally Field, Chris Sarandon, Diahann Carroll, Pat Hingle, and Miguel Sandoval in The Court (2002)
      The Court
      5.1
      TV Series
      • story editor
      • 2002

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    • Born
      • July 27
    • Other works
      Author of bestselling book, So That's what They're For!
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