---
name: "Hilary Bettis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hilary-bettis"
fi1m_id: "hilary-bettis"
imdb_id: "nm1799122"
tmdb_id: 1989137
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T19:56:42.182345+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."
---

# Hilary Bettis

## Identity

Hilary Bettis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hilary-bettis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hilary-bettis
- **IMDb ID:** nm1799122
- **TMDB ID:** 1989137
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1799122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1989137

Writer and producer. Born in South Carolina, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Active:** 2013–present
- **Also known as:** Hillary Bettis
- **Frequently works with:** [Greg Yaitanes](https://film.one/person/greg-yaitanes.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 91 (1), 2020s 61 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 64 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 2, Western 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1799122/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1989137

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Americans*](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md) (91), [*The Dropout*](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md) (70)
- **Apple TV:** [*Lucky*](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md) (57), [*Dutton Ranch*](https://film.one/tv/dutton-ranch.md) (56)

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

## Biography

Hilary Bettis is an American playwright, screenwriter and producer. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she held the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellowship.

She wrote for the final two seasons of the FX series *The Americans* (2017–2018), serving as story editor and receiving a Writers Guild of America Award for Drama Series in 2019 (having been nominated the previous year). Bettis wrote an episode of and produced the Hulu miniseries *The Dropout* (2022). She has also written for *Grand Army* (2020) and the series *Lucky* (2026) and *Dutton Ranch* (2026).

Her plays include *72 Miles to Go...*, a 2019 Blackburn Prize finalist that received an Off-Broadway production by Roundabout Theatre Company. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an alumna of the Sundance Institute Episodic TV Lab.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Dutton Ranch* (2026), Fi1m 56, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dutton-ranch.md)
- *Lucky* (2026), Fi1m 57, Writer, Supervising Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *The Dropout* (2022), Fi1m 70, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)
- *The Americans* (2013), Fi1m 91, Writer, Story Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Lucky* (2026), series, Supervising Producer, Writer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/tv/lucky.md)
- *Dutton Ranch* (2026), series, Writer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/tv/dutton-ranch.md)
- *The Dropout* (2022), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)
- *The Americans* (2013), series, Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-americans.md)
- *Zombies Anonymous: Last Rites of the Dead* (2006), as Diner Waitress
- *Herman U.S.A.* (2001), as Girl

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