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name: "Elle Johnson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elle-johnson"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:32.021739+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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# Elle Johnson

Writer. Born in Hollis, Queens, New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Also known as:** Lois Johnson
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105298512, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0960450/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1516995

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

Elle Johnson, also credited early in her career as Lois Johnson, is an American television writer, producer and showrunner. She grew up in Hollis, Queens, and graduated from Harvard University in 1986 with a degree in art history.

Her credits include writing for *Homicide: Life on the Street*, *CSI: Miami* (2002), *Law & Order* (2004–2005), *Ghost Whisperer* (2005), *The Glades* (2010), *The Fosters* (2013) and *Bosch* (2015). She served as executive producer and co-showrunner on the Netflix miniseries *Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker* (2020), which won a NAACP Image Award. Johnson has also written the memoir *The Officer's Daughter* (2021).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Writer, Teleplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *Ghost Whisperer* (2005), Writer
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), Writer
- *Bosch* (2015), Writer
- *Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker* (2020), Teleplay
- *The Fosters* (2013), Writer
- *Finding Carter* (2014), Writer

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