Shonda Lynn Rhimes is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author. She is best known as the showrunner, creator, head writer, and executive producer of the television medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice, and the political thriller series Scandal. Rhimes has also served as the executive producer of the ABC television series Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, and Grey’s spin-off Station 19.
In 2007 and 2021, Rhimes was named by Time on the Time 100, their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2015, she published her first book, a memoir, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person.
In 2017, Netflix said that it had entered into a multi-year development deal with Rhimes, by which all of her future productions would be Netflix Original series. Netflix had already purchased streaming rights to past episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.
Her living style
With a TV empire including the long-running ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, as well as Netflix’s Bridgerton and Inventing Anna, showrunner-creator-producer Shonda Rhimes can afford to live in luxury. But she chose to go with quirky and eclectic designs for her cozy New York City apartment, even using rooms for multiple purposes rather than having a huge living space in the Big Apple.
Rhimes added the home is filled with “wonderful little nooks” where she can write her hit television shows. The house was decorated with the help of designer Michael S. Smith, who famously decorated the Obamas’ private quarters in the White House. She uses her living room as an office, as well as an entertaining space. It includes several cozy white sofas, a desk, elegant table lamps, vases, as well as mismatched furniture. “Every piece was a find,”
Each room is bolder and brighter than the next, with mismatched pillows and ornate furniture that one wouldn’t think to put together, yet it all works when in the same space. And even though each room is packed with fun and functional furniture, there are even some hidden gems hiding away behind the walls. Shonda’s dining room also has multiple uses, including doubling as a guest bedroom!
She has a dining table with a banquette in one corner, while across the room is a wall featuring a big mounted screen TV and several tall cabinets containing books. With a small sitting area, the room is also a library and reading area, but the kicker is that the TV wall pulls down into a Murphy bed so that extra guests can stay over! With a bathroom just around the corner and doors on each entryway that close for privacy, it’s the perfect spare bedroom!