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name: "Erica Green Swafford"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erica-green-swafford"
fi1m_id: "erica-green-swafford"
tmdb_id: 1367220
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T12:15:51.472773+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."
---

# Erica Green Swafford

## Identity

Erica Green Swafford

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erica-green-swafford
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erica-green-swafford
- **TMDB ID:** 1367220
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1367220

Writer. Born in Washington D.C..

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1367220

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Mentalist*](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md) (71)

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

## Biography

Erika Green Swafford is an American television writer and producer. She earned an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and began her career in acquisitions at the Oxygen network before moving into writing. She was selected for the Warner Bros. Writers' Workshop and the WGA Writer Access Project.

Swafford joined the CBS series *The Mentalist* (2008) as a staff writer shortly after the 2007–2008 WGA strike and remained for six seasons, rising to producer while writing thirteen episodes. She later worked as a writer and producer on ABC's *How to Get Away with Murder*, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. Subsequent credits include *Reverie* and *New Amsterdam*.

*Sources: thementalist.fandom.com, imdb.com, newsroom.ucla.edu, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Mentalist* (2008), Fi1m 71, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, Writer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)

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