Diablo Cody

At 45 years old, Diablo Cody has this physical status:

Brook Busey-Maurio (born June 14, 1978), pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer.

Cody received critical acclaim for her debut feature film script, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (2005), as well as the Best Original Screenplay Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Cody created, penned, and produced Showtime's television series United States of Tara (2009–2011), as well as producing Jennifer's Body (2009) and Young Adult (2011).

She received her second award for Best Original Screenplay in Adult form.

Paradise, her directorial debut, was announced on October 18, 2013.

Early life

Diablo Cody was born in Lemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she and her older brother Marc were born. Pam and Greg Busey's daughter is the granddaughter of Pam and Greg Busey. Her mother is of Italian descent, and her father is of German ancestry. Cody was raised Anglican and attended Benet Academy, a Roman Catholic school in Lisle, Illinois. At this moment, she went by the name Brook, as the girl's name is known.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Media from the University of Iowa in 2000. She spent time at the University of Iowa in the acquisitions branch of the main university library. She began working at a Chicago law firm and later proofreading copy for advertisements on Twin Cities radio stations.

Personal life

Cody wrote fondly of her boyfriend "Jonny" in her book (Jon Hunt). They were married from 2004 to 2007, during which she was known in personal life as Brook Busey-Hunt.

Cody revealed on April 6, 2010, she was expecting her first child with her husband Dan Maurio, who worked on Chelsea Lately, and Cody appeared on Chelsea Lately as a "roundtable" guest. In the summer of 2009, the couple married in the summer. Their son was born in 2010. Cody had her second child in 2012. Cody and Maurio have three children as of 2018.

Cody lives in Los Angeles as of 2008.

Cody is a friend of screenwriter Dana Fox (What Happens in Vegas, Couples Retreat) and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers), and they often write their screenplays together in order to gain insight from one another.

She expressed regret for writing Juno in light of Georgia's new anti-abortion law, as critics mistook it for an anti-abortion film.

Cody is a lifelong roller coaster enthusiast and has a Giant Dipper tattoo on her right arm at Belmont Park (San Diego).

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Career

Cody's Red Secretary blog chronicles the (fictional) exploits of a secretary who lived in Belarus. The events were thinly announced allegories for events that occurred in Cody's real life, but they were told from the perspective of a dissatisfied, English-idiom-challenged Eastern Bloc teen.

After she had moved from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cody's first bona fide blog appeared under the name Darling Girl.

Cody established The Pussy Ranch in March 2003, using a pen name invented while speeding through Cody, Wyoming, listening to Arcadia's song "El Diablo." Cody turned down a whimsy at the Skyway Lounge, a Minneapolis strip joint. She quit her day job to become a full-time stripper after enjoying the experience and observing reader interest. At Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty and DVD store, Cody spent time at Peep shows.

Cody began writing for City Pages, an alternative Twin Cities weekly newspaper, while stripping. She left City Pages shortly before it changed editorial control and has since written for the now-defunct Jane magazine. Cody first started writing for Entertainment Weekly in December 2007.

Cody's book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper at the age of 27. Mason Novick, who would soon become Cody's boss, expressed concern in her vivacious and sarcastic voice. Novick was able to offer her a publishing deal with Gotham Books due to the success of her blog.

Cody was encouraged by Mason Novick to try writing a screenplay after finishing her book. Juno, a coming-of-age story about a teenager's unplanned pregnancy, was published within months. The script was completed in February 2005 and was optioned by a director by the time of the summer. Elliot Page and Michael Cera appear in Jason Reitman's directed comedy.

Juno was runner-up for the Toronto International Film Festival, received second prize at the Rome Film Festival, and received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Cody's debut script received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. In addition, she received BAFTA, the Writer's Guild of America, the National Board of Review, the National Board of Review, the Satellite Awards, and the 2008 Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Work of Director, Producer & Screenwriter (shared with Jason Reitman, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russel Smith, and Lianne Halfon).

Many in Hollywood were read before the film was released, giving Cody more opportunities. Showtime also revealed that it would be producing a pilot of Cody's DreamWorks television series, United States of Tara, in July 2007. Tara is a comedy based on Steven Spielberg's idea of a mother with a dissociative identity disorder starring Toni Collette. The series debuted in spring 2008 and premiered on January 18, 2009.

Cody brought a script titled Girly Style to Universal Studios in October 2007 and a horror movie titled Jennifer's Body to Fox Atomic. Megan Fox played the title character and Amanda Seyfried as the supporting character in Jennifer's Body's 2009 debut on September 18, 2009, with Megan Fox playing as the title character and Amanda Seyfried as the supporting character. Burlesque's script was rewritten by writer-director Steven Antin.

In a 2008 episode of the television series 90210, Cody made a small cameo appearance as herself. She appeared in the same episode that marked Tori Spelling's return as Donna Martin, in which Cody wanted Spelling's character to make a dress for a red carpet function. Cody began to script and produce a film version of the Sweet Valley High young adult book series in 2009. Diablo Cody is co-writing the Untold True Story, which is Archived in the Wayback Machine from 2020 to 19-17.

Fede Alvarez, a first-time feature filmmaker, was brought in to revise Sam Raimi's 1980s horror film The Evil Dead. Cody launched "Red Band Trailer," a television interview show on the internet, L-studio in October 2011. The actress started the series on YouTube in summer 2010, but the Lexus channel picked it up the following year.

Cody wrote and directed the comedy-drama film Young Adult in 2011. Cody was nominated by writers' guilds such as the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Writers Guild of America, respectively. She spoke with Jason Reitman, Charlize Theron, and Patton Oswalt at the Palm Springs International Film Festival to honor the Chairman's Vanguard Award. The Fempire, a writer-collaboration of writers Cody, Dana Fox, Liz Meriwether, and Lorene Scafaria, received the Creativity and Sisterhood Award from the Athena Film Festival in 2012 for their continued assistance for one another in the competitive film industry.

On the WTF with Marc Maron's podcast on February 24, 2012, she announced that her next film, which is about a young woman who abandons faith after surviving a plane crash. In February 2013, she revealed that the film was called Paradise (firstly known as Lamb of God). Julianne Hough, Holly Hunter, Octavia Spencer, and Russell Brand appeared in the film. The film, which was released in October 2013, was produced by Mandate Pictures.

Cody will host Me Time with Diablo Cody on TBS in May 2013. "Diablo's unique perspective on pop culture and delivered in her own tongue-in-cheek way" and "reveals a side of Hollywood and celebs that the average viewer seldom gets to see." Steve Agee was supposed to be presenting and writing with her. Cody was a producer, alongside Mark Cronin and Courtland Cox. The series never appeared or made it air.

Cody's numerous projects that were cancelled or stuck in construction hell, including Time and a Half, which was directed by Julianne Hough. Prospery, Josh Schwartz's teen drama series, also developed with her sister Naomi Schwartz for Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it focusing on "a 16-year-old genius who has been alienated from her peers because of homeschooling. She enrolls in her local high school, hoping to have a "normal" teen social life before she steps into academia's adult world. When she is discovered by a large crowd, she is pulled into a whirlwind of romance and crime." Cody also created and wrote Warner Bros. Television's romantic comedy series pilot Alex+Amy was also written by Cody.

Cody is the Athena Film Festival's spokesperson.

In his last film feature film, Cody wrote and produced Ricki and the Flash (2015), starring Meryl Streep and directed by Jonathan Demme. She wrote and produced Tully (2018), reuniting her with Young Adult actress Charlize Theron. Jason Reitman, who also wrote Cody's scripts for Juno and Young Adult, helmed the film.

She drafted the script for the Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, which is based on Alanis Morissette's album of the same name. In November 2019, the musical premiere took place.

Cody started working with Madonna on a screenplay of the singer's life in August 2020.

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