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name: "Elizabeth Peterson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elizabeth-peterson"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:27.201845+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."
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# Elizabeth Peterson

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5745999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1619194

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Leftovers*](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md) (87)

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## Biography

Elizabeth Peterson is a television writer and producer. She received a writing credit on the first season of the HBO series *The Leftovers* (2014).

Her other writing credits include episodes of *The Newsroom* (2013), *Bull* (2016–2017), *Containment* (2016), *Deception* (2018), *The Resident* (2021–2022), *Prodigal Son* (2019–2021) and *Spinning Out* (2020). She has also worked as a story editor, staff writer and producer on several of these series.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Leftovers* (2014), Fi1m 87, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-leftovers.md)

## Also known for

- *The Resident* (2018), Writer
- *The Newsroom* (2012), Story
- *Prodigal Son* (2019), Writer
- *Bull* (2016), Writer, Teleplay, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor
- *Deception* (2018), Writer
- *Containment* (2016), Writer

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