Raelle Tucker

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Raelle Tucker
Born
United States
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • television producer
  • playwright

Raelle Tucker is an American playwright, television writer, producer, and showrunner, best known for her work on HBO's True Blood, Netflix's Jessica Jones, and for the Facebook Watch series Sacred Lies, which she created based on Stephanie Oakes's novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly.[1]

Early life

Tucker was raised by her fashion and costume designer mother, Joy Borne, in Ibiza, Spain. Her mother was briefly involved in the Rajneesh movement featured in the Netflix docu-series Wild Wild Country. Her father was playwright, Neil Tucker, who died from AIDS in 1995.

Growing up on a rural island without a TV, Tucker founded a theater company and began writing and directing plays to entertain herself and her community.

Career

After moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, Tucker spent several years supporting herself as a waitress and exotic dancer while she wrote and produced plays like Will Strip For Food and Eve Of Paradise, before attending the American Film Institute's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, where she directed a short film The Clay Man,[2] based on Jewish folktales of the Golem.

In 2003, a script co-written by Tucker and Sera Gamble was one of three finalists[3] in Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's HBO filmmaking competition, Project Greenlight. She then found her first job in television writing for John McNamara's Eyes, an ABC series about a team of dysfunctional private investigators.

Tucker wrote for the first two seasons of the CW's

Golden Globes
.

In 2015, Tucker executive-produced

The Returned with Carlton Cuse
. Her writing on the show was nominated for a Women's Image Award.

Tucker went on to write and executive-produce season two of Jessica Jones on Netflix, alongside creator/showrunner, Melissa Rosenberg.

In her free time Tucker optioned the rights to Stephanie Oakes' novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, inspired by the

The Handless Maiden. Tucker developed the pilot, before bringing on executive producer Scott Winant (True Blood, Fargo, Breaking Bad, My So-Called Life) and they sold a ten-episode order of the series to Facebook Watch. Sacred Lies season one premiered on Facebook Watch in 2018, as the platform's first premium original series. Sacred Lies Season Two: The Singing Bones
starring Juliette Lewis, Ryan Kwanten and Jordan Alexander premiered in February 2020. Both seasons of Sacred Lies were then acquired by Peacock - where they are currently streaming.

Television career

Eyes

  • 1.5 Shots
  • 1.11 Art

Supernatural

True Blood

  • 1.6
    Cold Ground
  • 1.12
    You'll Be the Death of Me
  • 2.3
    Scratches
  • 2.7
    Release Me
  • 3.2
    Beautifully Broken
  • 3.8
    Night on the Sun
  • 4.6
    I Wish I Was the Moon
  • 4.12
    And When I Die
  • 5.3 Whatever I Am, You Made Me
  • 5.9
    Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  • 6.1
    Who Are You, Really?

The Returned

  • 1.2 Simon
  • 1.3 Julie
  • 1.8 Claire
  • 1.10 Peter

Jessica Jones

  • 2.6
    AKA Facetime
  • 2.12
    AKA Pray for My Patsy

Sacred Lies

  • 1.1 Chapter One: The Handless Maiden
  • 1.10 Chapter Ten: Subject: Minnow Bly
  • 2.1 "Chapter One: The Singing Bones"
  • 2.10 "Chapter Ten: With the Dancing Lions"

References

  1. ^ "With Sacred Lies, Facebook Watch Hopes to Redefine "Prestige" TV. And It Just Might Work". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  2. ^ The Clay Man, retrieved 2019-02-04
  3. ^ "'The Returned' Showrunner Raelle Tucker: How I Made It in Hollywood". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-04.

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