--- name: "Aline Brosh McKenna" canonical: "https://film.one/person/aline-brosh-mckenna" fi1m_id: "aline-brosh-mckenna" imdb_id: "nm0112459" tmdb_id: 10567 wikidata_id: "Q511934" roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"] born: "2 August 1967" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 64 average_as: "writer" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-10-03T01:56:54.905472+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Aline Brosh McKenna ## Identity Aline Brosh McKenna - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aline-brosh-mckenna - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** aline-brosh-mckenna - **IMDb ID:** nm0112459 - **TMDB ID:** 10567 - **Wikidata ID:** Q511934 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Brosh_McKenna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10567 Writer and producer. Born 2 August 1967 in Frankreich. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director - **Born:** 2 August 1967, Frankreich - **Active:** 2006–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 directing, 4 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Anne Hathaway](https://film.one/person/anne-hathaway.md), [David Frankel](https://film.one/person/david-frankel.md), [Emily Blunt](https://film.one/person/emily-blunt.md), [Meryl Streep](https://film.one/person/meryl-streep.md), [Stanley Tucci](https://film.one/person/stanley-tucci.md), [Wendy Finerman](https://film.one/person/wendy-finerman.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 70 (1), 2010s 70 (2), 2020s 65 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 62 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 3, Crime 1, Family 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,372m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Brosh_McKenna, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511934, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10567 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*The Devil Wears Prada*](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada.md) (70), [*The Devil Wears Prada 2*](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md) (64), [*We Bought a Zoo*](https://film.one/film/we-bought-a-zoo.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Aline Brosh McKenna > Aline Brosh McKenna writes women who are good at their jobs and worse at everything else, and puts them in an office. At her best, on *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend*, it is honest and rude; at her safest, it stops where a sponsor might mind. A New York lawyer is offered partnership, meets an old summer boyfriend on the pavement, quits, packs and follows him to West Covina, telling everyone this has nothing to do with him. That is the McKenna opening in miniature: a woman who is excellent at her work tells a lie about her heart, and the script spends the rest of its running time taking the lie apart. Andy Sachs fetching Miranda Priestly's coffee in *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006) is the same woman at a different desk. The office is where McKenna's characters are funny; home is where they are found out. She came to it sideways, as a freelance magazine writer in New York who took a six-week screenwriting course and moved to Los Angeles in 1991. The first produced feature was *Three to Tango* (1999); *The Devil Wears Prada* made her name, and *27 Dresses* (2008) confirmed what she would be hired to do. Then the turn: *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015–2019), co-created with Rachel Bloom, which she ran and wrote and, for four episodes, directed. She directed her first feature, *Your Place or Mine*, in 2023, and went back to David Frankel and Miranda Priestly for *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026). *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* is the work we would send a stranger to. It takes the ugliest phrase in dating and spends 62 episodes finding the woman inside it, two songs at a time, with more patience and less cruelty than the title promises. We laughed at the songs and then found the sadness under them had got to us more than we expected, because Rebecca Bunch is never let off the hook and never treated as a punchline either. It is longer than it needs to be. It is still the fullest thing she has done. The weakness shows when the material is safe. The dossier of her career says the work sometimes stays inside the romantic-comedy shape even when it means to complicate it, and *27 Dresses* is the usual example. *The Devil Wears Prada 2* is the sharper case: the right subject, the death of magazines, and the wrong method, since nearly everything at stake is explained across a desk before the film cuts to a frock. A film about luxury that has plainly been paid for by luxury never solves that, and McKenna's script does not try. The satire ends exactly where the sponsors would start to mind. She has said she tries not to peddle "the idea that a relationship is going to make you perfect or whole", and on television she kept that promise for four years. She directs now. The next thing worth waiting for is the one where nobody has paid for the clothes. ## Biography Aline Brosh McKenna is an American screenwriter, producer and director. Born on 2 August 1967 in France, she moved with her family to New Jersey as an infant and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. She is known for writing the screenplays for *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006) and its sequel *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026), *27 Dresses* (2008), *Morning Glory* (2010), *We Bought a Zoo* (2011) and *Your Place or Mine* (2023), which she also directed. She co-created and served as showrunner on the television series *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015–2019). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, vogue.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### Directed (1) - *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer, Director, Creator, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md) ### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these - *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md) - *Cruella* (2021), Fi1m 66, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md) - *We Bought a Zoo* (2011), Fi1m 58, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/we-bought-a-zoo.md) - *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada.md) ## Complete filmography (16) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Devil Wears Prada 2* (2026), Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md) - *Your Place or Mine* (2023), Producer, Screenplay, Director - *Cruella* (2021), Story — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/cruella.md) - *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Oh My God I Think It's Over* (2019), Producer - *Late Night* (2019), Thanks - *Crazy Ex-Girlfriend* (2015), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/crazy-ex-girlfriend.md) - *Annie* (2014), Screenplay - *We Bought a Zoo* (2011), Screenplay — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/we-bought-a-zoo.md) - *I Don't Know How She Does It* (2011), Screenplay, Executive Producer - *Morning Glory* (2010), Screenplay - *27 Dresses* (2008), Writer - *The Devil Wears Prada* (2006), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada.md) - *Laws of Attraction* (2004), Screenplay, Story - *Three to Tango* (1999), Screenplay - *Coapa Heights* (1999), Script - *All Stars*, series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator ## Gallery - ![Aline Brosh McKenna at an event for We Bought a Zoo (2011). (2000)](https://film.one/media/person/6802/gallery-2f8ae7d33c3b.jpg) Aline Brosh McKenna at an event for We Bought a Zoo (2011). (2000) — RobinR27, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/AlineBroshMcKenna01.jpg/1280px-AlineBroshMcKenna01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Aline Brosh McKenna](https://film.one/media/person/6802/gallery-e6a99d7ced75.png) Aline Brosh McKenna — thedemonhog, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Aline_Brosh_McKenna.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/aline-brosh-mckenna