Though her first two produced features were both romantic comedies, McKenna has reiterated that The Devil Wears Prada is not, and has instead described it as 'competence porn', noting: 'The real love story is, she ends up with that newspaper, having understood the world better and having understood her naiveté better'. She adapted Lauren Weisberger’s novel The Devil Wears Prada into the 2006 film of the same name, directed by David Frankel and starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt. In 2004, she wrote Laws of Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. However, it would be eight years until her first movie, 1999's Matthew Perry- Neve Campbell romantic comedy Three to Tango, was produced. She also wrote an episode of Margaret Cho's sitcom All American Girl. By age 26, she had sold a comedy feature and a television pilot, and continued to write a number of feature and television scripts. Ī script she wrote during a six-week course in screenwriting at New York University helped her get an agent, and, in 1991, she moved to Los Angeles.

While there, she did some freelance writing work. Career Īfter graduating, McKenna moved to New York City to seek a job in publishing.

She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. Her credits include writing The Devil Wears Prada (2006), 27 Dresses (2008), Morning Glory (2010), We Bought a Zoo (2011) and co-creating The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.īrosh was born to a Jewish family in France and, at the age of six months, moved with her family to New Jersey, where she lived variously in Fort Lee, Demarest and Montvale, and attended Saddle River Day School in Saddle River. McKenna at the 2008 Screenwriting Expo in the Los Angeles Convention CenterĪline Brosh McKenna (born August 2, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer and director.

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