Moira Walley-Beckett

Moira Walley-Beckett
Occupation Television Writer
Nationality Canadian
Notable work(s) Breaking Bad

Moira Walley-Beckett is a Canadian-born, American-based television actress, producer and writer. She has worked on the AMC drama Breaking Bad as a writer and producer and has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for her work on the series.

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Biography

Walley-Beckett worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a television actress. She had guest starring roles on many different series.

Walley-Beckett began writing for television in 2007 as a staff writer for a short-lived NBC detective drama Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum. In 2008 she joined the writing staff for the legal drama Eli Stone and penned the episode "Heal the Pain".

She joined the crew of Breaking Bad as a story editor for the second season and wrote the episodes "Breakage" [1] and "Over".[2] The second season writing staff were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season.[3] She was promoted to co-producer for the third season in 2010 and wrote the episodes "Mas"[4] and (with Sam Catlin) "Fly." She was promoted again to producer for the fourth season in 2011.

Filmography

Production staff

Year Show Role Notes
2011 Breaking Bad Producer Season 4
2010 Co-producer Season 3
2009 Story editor Season 2

Writer

Year Show Season Episode title Episode Notes
2011 Breaking Bad 4 "End Times" 12 co-wrote with Thomas Schnauz
"Bug" 9
"Bullet Points" 4
2010 3 "Fly" 10 co-wrote with Sam Catlin
"Mas"[4] 5
2009 2 "Over"[2] 10
"Breakage"[1] 5
2008 Eli Stone 1 "Heal the Pain" 7

References

  1. ^ a b "Breakage". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 4/5/2009. No. 5, season 2.
  2. ^ a b "Over". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 5/10/2009. No. 10, season 2.
  3. ^ "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 
  4. ^ a b "Mas". Writ. Moira Walley-Becket. Breaking Bad. AMC. 4/18/2010. No. 5, season 3.

External links

Moira Walley-Beckett at the Internet Movie Database