Kelly Oxford
Born (1977-11-29) November 29, 1977
Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Writer, director
Children3

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, director, and screenwriter.[1]

Career

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 her online writing and scriptwriting. She started an anonymous blog in 2002,[2] 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]

In 2014 Oxford appeared on the reality show Candidly Nicole, starring Lionel Richie's daughter Nicole Richie.[5]

Oxford and Molly McNearney, head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, developed a semi-autobiographical comedy for TV Land in early 2016. The pair would write and star in the series.[6]

Following the release of the Donald Trump and Billy Bush recording during the 2016 presidential election, Oxford tweeted a request for women to "tweet me your first assaults", using the hashtag #notokay, and within days received 27 million views and responses. The response was so large that it received coverage by The New York Times and other media.[7][8][9][10]

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.[11] 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.[12][13]

In March 2017, Oxford was developing a 1990s-set teen drama series for Hulu, with her The Disaster Artist collaborators James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg producing.[14]

In October 2020 her directorial debut Pink Skies Ahead premiered at AFI Fest.

Personal life

Oxford and her husband James were together for 17 years until divorcing in 2016. She has three children, Salinger, Henry and Beatrix.[15] She revealed in 2023 that she'd been diagnosed with autism and ADHD.[16]

Books

  • (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

  1. ↑ "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011". Time. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Sperling, Nicole (June 19, 2012). "Twitter sensation Kelly Oxford hooks Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lederman, Marsha (April 2013). "How Calgary mom Kelly Oxford tweeted her way to Hollywood". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Hoby, Hermione (May 11, 2013). "Twitter's first star". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Candidly Nicole Full Cast & Crew". IMDB.
  6. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (February 19, 2016). "Kelly Oxford & Molly McNearney To Create & Star In Semi-Autobiographical Comedy For TV Land". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Mahler, Jonathan (October 11, 2016). "For Many Women, Trump's 'Locker Room Talk' Brings Memories of Abuse". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Domonoske, Camila (October 11, 2016). "One Tweet Unleashes A Torrent Of Stories Of Sexual Assault". NPR. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  9. ↑ Amy B Wang (November 24, 2021) [2016-10-08]. "'This is rape culture': After Trump video, thousands of women share sexual assault stories". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  10. ↑ Saraogi, Varsha (January 9, 2018). "Hashtag activism like #NotOkay is challenging rape culture, study says". Reuters. Archived from the original on September 3, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Jimmy Kimmel Live! April 11, 2017. ABC.
  13. ↑ Gee, Dana (May 5, 2017). "Kelly Oxford:Author and self confessed Trump troll visits Vancouver". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  14. ↑ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (March 23, 2017). "James Franco, Seth Rogen Developing '90s Teen Drama at Hulu From Writer Kelly Oxford (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ Oxford, Kelly (October 24, 2023). "On Julia Fox and Intrusive Thoughts". Permanent Retrograde. Substack. Retrieved December 7, 2023.
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