Margaret Nagle

Margaret Nagle
WGA Award Winner
Born	(1969-01-12) January 12, 1969 (age 48) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation	screenwriter, television producer
Notable awards	Writers Guild of America Award
Years active	1987-present
Spouse	Ron Fassler
Children	Jeremy and Charlotte

Margaret Nagle (born January 12, 1969) is a screenwriter, television producer and human rights activist. She has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and won three Writers Guild of America Awards. Her first script, HBO's Warm Springs received a record-breaking 16 Emmy nominations and won five Emmys in 2005, including the Emmy Award for Best Television Movie. It also won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original Screenplay. Nagle's screenplay for the 2014 film "The Good Lie" received The Paul Selvin Award from the Writer's Guild of America. Nagle also received a 2011 Writer's Guild Award for her work on Boardwalk Empire. Nagle recently received the 2014 Media Access Award from the Writers Guild of America for "doubling the number" of people on network TV with disabilities. Nagle has been raising money for Humanitarian Aid for South Sudan by appearing at screenings of The Good Lie on behalf of Concern, UNICEF, RefugePoint and other organizations.

Nagle wrote the script for The Good Lie, released in 2014, a movie about the Lost Boys of Sudan, It premiered at 2014 Toronto Film Festival where it received the longest standing ovation in the history of the festival. It was released in 2014 by Warner Brothers. The Good Lie received an A+ rating from CinemaScore one of a handful of films ever to receive that high a rating. Nagle received the prestigious 2015 Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America for The Good Lie. The award is given each year to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to which Selvin devoted his professional life. Nagle was nominated for Best Original Screenplay of a Feature Film for THE GOOD LIE at the 2015 NAACP AWARDS. Through Thegoodliefund.org the movie has been raising money for humanitarian aid for South Sudan. Nagle recently received the 2015 Jonathan Daniels Award named for the slain civil rights worker who was working with MLK from the Monadnock International Film Festival celebrating the fusion of great artistic merit and social awareness. The Good Lie is currently nominated for the Humanitas Prize for 2016 for Best Screenplay of a Feature Film.

Currently Nagle is working on adapting the Danish cult hit television series "Legacy" for director Doug Liman to direct. Recently bought by USA Network the series, by the producers of Borgen and The Killing, is about the adult siblings of a great female artist. Nagle is also working on a mini-series of the David Nasaw's Pulitzer Prize nominated book The Patriarch for HBO. The mini-series covers the turbulent and complicated life of Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Nagle is also adapting Bonfire of the Vanities as a 10 part mini-series at WBTV.