---
name: "Courtney Lilly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/courtney-lilly"
fi1m_id: "courtney-lilly"
imdb_id: "nm1546020"
tmdb_id: 1184367
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T03:43:44.368153+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."
---

# Courtney Lilly

## Identity

Courtney Lilly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/courtney-lilly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** courtney-lilly
- **IMDb ID:** nm1546020
- **TMDB ID:** 1184367
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1546020/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184367

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2003–2005
- **Frequently works with:** [Arlene Sanford](https://film.one/person/arlene-sanford.md), [Jeff Melman](https://film.one/person/jeff-melman.md), [Lev L. Spiro](https://film.one/person/lev-l-spiro.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1546020/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184367

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Arrested Development*](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md) (87)
- **Disney+:** [*Everybody Hates Chris*](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Courtney Lilly is an American television writer and producer. He graduated with a BA from Columbia University in 1997 and worked as a journalist at the Providence Journal-Bulletin before winning a Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship in 2000.

Lilly began his television career writing for *Invader ZIM* (2002) and *Arrested Development* (2004–2005), where he received writer and story credits. He later wrote episodes of *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), *My Boys* (2006–2009) and *The Cleveland Show* (2011–2013).

He joined *black-ish* as co-executive producer in its first season and became showrunner from season six in 2019. He has also served as showrunner on the spin-offs *mixed-ish* and *grown-ish*. Lilly has received Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award for his work on *black-ish*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)
- *Arrested Development* (2003), Fi1m 87, Story, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *mixed-ish* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *black-ish* (2014), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *I'm Through with White Girls* (2007), Writer
- *Everybody Hates Chris* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/everybody-hates-chris.md)
- *Arrested Development* (2003), series, as Engineer · Writer, Story — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/arrested-development.md)
- *Invader ZIM* (2001), series, Writer

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