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name: "Jill Franklyn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jill-franklyn"
fi1m_id: "jill-franklyn"
tmdb_id: 1223847
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:39:12.110499+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."
---

# Jill Franklyn

## Identity

Jill Franklyn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jill-franklyn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jill-franklyn
- **TMDB ID:** 1223847
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223847

Writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223847

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Seinfeld*](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md) (90)

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## Biography

Jill Franklyn is an American television and film writer. She began her career as an actress before moving into writing.

She is known for co-writing the Seinfeld episode 'The Yada Yada' (1997) with Peter Mehlman, for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination. Her other credits include the feature film My First Mister (2001) and creating the Starz series Gravity (2010), on which she also served as writer and executive producer. She wrote episodes of and produced It's Like, You Know... (1999–2001).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Seinfeld* (1989), Fi1m 90, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Gravity* (2010), series, Writer
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, Writer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *To Kill a Stranger* (1986), as Susan

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