Kelly Oxford

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Kelly Oxford
Born (1977-11-29) November 29, 1977 (age 46)
Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Writer, director
Children3

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, director, and screenwriter.[1]

Career[edit]

In 1996, Oxford dropped out of Mount Royal University after one semester.[2] She started blogging as a means of daily productivity and self-publishing. She later worked as a waitress and at a shoe store.[2]

In 2001, Oxford became a full-time stay-at-home mother and began focusing on her online writing and scriptwriting. She started an anonymous blog in 2002,[2] joined Twitter in 2009 and gained a large following,[3] eventually attracting the attention of celebrities, including Diablo Cody and Roger Ebert, and being contacted by a number of agents.[3] She sold a television script to CBS, to be executive produced by Jessica Alba, based on her life as a mother in Calgary.[3] She then wrote another pilot that was bought by NBC. Neither script has been produced.[3] Oxford moved to Los Angeles in 2012.[3]

In 2013, Oxford published a semi-autobiographical book, Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar, which became a New York Times bestseller.[4]

In 2014, Oxford appeared on the reality show Candidly Nicole, starring Lionel Richie's daughter Nicole Richie.[5]

Oxford and Molly McNearney, head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, developed a semi-autobiographical comedy for TV Land in early 2016. The pair would write and star in the series.[6]

Following the release of the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording during the 2016 presidential election, Oxford tweeted a request for women to "tweet me your first assaults", using the hashtag #notokay, and within days received 27 million views and responses. The response was so large that it received coverage by The New York Times and other media.[7][8][9][10]

In 2016, Kelly was an on-set writer of the The Disaster Artist.

On April 18, 2017, Oxford released her second book, When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments.[11] While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as part of the book's launch, she revealed that it was during a kitchen table conversation with Kimmel and his head writer (and wife) McNearney that the segment "Mean Tweets" originated, after she and Kimmel read cruel tweets to each other in a humorous way, trying to outdo each other.[12][13]

In March 2017, Oxford was developing a 1990s-set teen drama series for Hulu, with her The Disaster Artist collaborators James Franco, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg producing.[14]

In October 2020, her directorial debut Pink Skies Ahead premiered at AFI Fest.

Personal life[edit]

Oxford and her husband James were together for 17 years, until divorcing in 2016. She has three children, Salinger, Henry and Beatrix.[15] She revealed in 2023 that she'd been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD.[16]

Books[edit]

  • (2013) Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar (paperback edition 2014, ISBN 978-0062102232)
  • (2017) When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments (hardcover, ISBN 978-0062322777)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011". Time. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c Sperling, Nicole (June 19, 2012). "Twitter sensation Kelly Oxford hooks Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e Lederman, Marsha (April 2013). "How Calgary mom Kelly Oxford tweeted her way to Hollywood". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  4. ^ Hoby, Hermione (May 11, 2013). "Twitter's first star". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  5. ^ "Candidly Nicole Full Cast & Crew". IMDB.
  6. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 19, 2016). "Kelly Oxford & Molly McNearney To Create & Star In Semi-Autobiographical Comedy For TV Land". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  7. ^ Mahler, Jonathan (October 11, 2016). "For Many Women, Trump's 'Locker Room Talk' Brings Memories of Abuse". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  8. ^ Domonoske, Camila (October 11, 2016). "One Tweet Unleashes A Torrent Of Stories Of Sexual Assault". NPR. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Amy B Wang (November 24, 2021) [2016-10-08]. "'This is rape culture': After Trump video, thousands of women share sexual assault stories". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.[please check these dates]
  10. ^ Saraogi, Varsha (January 9, 2018). "Hashtag activism like #NotOkay is challenging rape culture, study says". Reuters. Archived from the original on September 3, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Oxford, Kelly (April 18, 2017). When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments. Place of publication not identified: Dey Street Books. ISBN 9780062322777.
  12. ^ Jimmy Kimmel Live! April 11, 2017. ABC.
  13. ^ Gee, Dana (May 5, 2017). "Kelly Oxford:Author and self confessed Trump troll visits Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  14. ^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (March 23, 2017). "James Franco, Seth Rogen Developing '90s Teen Drama at Hulu From Writer Kelly Oxford (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  15. ^ Fernandez, Alexia (July 17, 2018). "Author Kelly Oxford, Who Started #NotOkay, Claims Her Ex-Husband Once Threw a Phone at Her Head". People. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  16. ^ Oxford, Kelly (October 24, 2023). "On Julia Fox and Intrusive Thoughts". Permanent Retrograde. Substack. Retrieved December 7, 2023.

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kelly_Oxford&oldid=1208335497"