Kelly Oxford
Kelly Oxford | |
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| Born | November 29, 1977 Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, director |
| Children | 3 |
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 an anonymous blog.[2] She 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] She appeared on the reality show Candidly Nicole, starring Nicole Richie.[5] Additionally Oxford and Molly McNearney, head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, developed a semi-autobiographical comedy for TV Land in early 2016 that did not air.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8][9] In October 2020, her directorial debut Pink Skies Ahead premiered at AFI Fest.
Personal life
[edit]Oxford and her husband James Skitmore were together for 17 years, until divorcing in 2016. She has three children.[10] She revealed in 2023 that she'd been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD.[11]
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]- ^ "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011". Time. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
- ^ a b c Sperling, Nicole (June 19, 2012). "Twitter sensation Kelly Oxford hooks Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hoby, Hermione (May 11, 2013). "Twitter's first star". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
- ^ "Candidly Nicole Full Cast & Crew". IMDB.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 19, 2016). "Kelly Oxford & Molly McNearney To Create & Star In Semi-Autobiographical Comedy For TV Land". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jimmy Kimmel Live! April 11, 2017. ABC.
- ^ Gee, Dana (May 5, 2017). "Kelly Oxford:Author and self confessed Trump troll visits Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Oxford, Kelly (October 24, 2023). "On Julia Fox and Intrusive Thoughts". Permanent Retrograde. Substack. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Kelly Oxford on Twitter
- Kelly Oxford at IMDb
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