---
name: "Amanda Overton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amanda-overton"
fi1m_id: "amanda-overton"
imdb_id: "nm3354758"
tmdb_id: 1656216
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T22:37:44.073466+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."
---

# Amanda Overton

## Identity

Amanda Overton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amanda-overton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** amanda-overton
- **IMDb ID:** nm3354758
- **TMDB ID:** 1656216
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3354758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1656216

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3354758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1656216

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Severance*](https://film.one/tv/severance.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Amanda Overton is a writer and producer working in television. She wrote an episode of the Apple TV+ series *Severance* (2022) and served as a producer on the first season. She has also written episodes of the animated series *Arcane* (2021–2024) and *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters* (2023), on which she worked as co-executive producer.

Earlier in her career she held roles including script coordinator on *True Detective* (2014) and other series. Overton received Writers Guild of America Awards for Drama Series and New Series for *Severance* in 2023, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program as co-executive producer on *Arcane* in 2025. She previously worked as a geneticist.

*Sources: imdb.com, allusionmagazine.com, tvmaze.com, en.wikipedia.org, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Severance* (2022), Fi1m 86, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)

### Crew (1)

- *True Detective* (2014), Fi1m 80, Script Coordinator — [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Monarch: Legacy of Monsters* (2023), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Severance* (2022), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/severance.md)
- *Arcane* (2021), series, Writer, Executive Story Editor, Co-Executive Producer
- *True Detective* (2014), series, Script Coordinator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *Genderfreak* (2012), First Assistant Director
- *T* (2008), Writer, Director
- *Penelope of Sparta*, Screenplay

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