Veena Sud

Veena Sud
Born	Veena Cabreros-Sud Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Barnard College New York University
Occupation	Television writer, director, producer
Children	1

Veena Cabreros-Sud (pronounced "Sood") is a Canadian-born American television writer, director, and producer. She is best known for developing the American television drama The Killing, which is based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen (The Crime).

Sud was born in Toronto to Mohendra Sud, a physician born in India. She grew up in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb near Cincinnati, Ohio. She is of Filipino and Indian heritage. Sud graduated from Cincinnati Country Day School in 1985 and attended Barnard College, where she studied political science and women's studies and served as university senator. After graduating from Barnard in 1989, she spent several years working as a journalist at Pacifica Radio and at the media-watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. When she was 28, she enrolled at New York University's film school and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Film and Television program at NYU.

After graduation, she directed MTV's The Real World for one year and later moved to Los Angeles. She was an episode writer for the 2002 television series Push, Nevada before it got cancelled. She met Meredith Stiehm, the creator of the CBS police drama Cold Case, who hired her as a writer. Three years later, she became the show’s executive producer.

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