Jenji Kohan
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Kohan at 2014 Paley Fest
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| Born |
Jenji Leslie Kohan July 5, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Television writer, producer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Noxon (m. 1997) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) |
Buz Kohan (father) Rhea Kohan (mother) |
| Relatives |
David Kohan (brother) Jono Kohan (brother) |
Jenji Leslie Kohan (born July 5, 1969) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator of the Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. She has received nine Emmy Award nominations, winning one as supervising producer of the comedy series Tracey Takes On....
Kohan was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of novelist Rhea Kohan (née Arnold), and writer, producer, and composer, Alan W. "Buz" Kohan. Kohan has two older brothers, twins Jono and David. She comes from a show business family: Buz is an Emmy Award-winning television writer, and David is an Emmy Award-winning television producer.
Kohan says that Buz was the "king of variety television in his day," writing and producing the Oscars and other variety shows. Her mother was a writer. She grew up in Beverly Hills, California. She first attended Brandeis University, and transferred to Columbia University as a sophomore, where she graduated, with a degree in English language and literature, in 1991.
On her beginnings, an ex-boyfriend told her that she had "a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show".
Kohan's first job in the industry was with Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, which Kohan wrote one episode of, and later said was a "rough entrance" to the business. After a series of writing jobs on shows such as Mad About You, Tracey Takes On..., and Friends, she collaborated with her brother, David Kohan, writing an outside script for Will & Grace. The siblings also worked together on the sitcom The Stones for CBS, which was ultimately unsuccessful. She has discussed the differences between her and her brother's career saying, "David took the big, commercial, funny route; I was always a little darker personally, and not terrific within the system. I had to make my own way."
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