---
name: "Karen McCullah"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-mccullah"
fi1m_id: "karen-mccullah"
imdb_id: "nm0527581"
tmdb_id: 40589
wikidata_id: "Q6369876"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 December 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T11:32:44.884156+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."
---

# Karen McCullah

## Identity

Karen McCullah

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-mccullah
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-mccullah
- **IMDb ID:** nm0527581
- **TMDB ID:** 40589
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6369876
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_McCullah, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6369876, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40589

Writer. Born 5 December 1967 in Philippines.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 December 1967, Philippines
- **Active:** 1999–2009
- **Also known as:** Karen McCullah Lutz, Карън Луц
- **Frequently works with:** [Kirsten Smith](https://film.one/person/kirsten-smith.md), [Robert Luketic](https://film.one/person/robert-luketic.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (1), 2000s 58 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 59 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Romance 2, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $517m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_McCullah, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6369876, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/40589

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*10 Things I Hate About You*](https://film.one/film/10-things-i-hate-about-you.md) (80)
- **HBO Max:** [*Legally Blonde*](https://film.one/film/legally-blonde.md) (78)
- **Tubi:** [*The Ugly Truth*](https://film.one/film/the-ugly-truth.md) (39)

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

## Biography

Karen McCullah is an American screenwriter and novelist. She graduated from James Madison University in 1988 with a degree in marketing and worked in various jobs before beginning to write screenplays.

She frequently collaborates with writer Kirsten Smith. Their credits include *10 Things I Hate About You* (1999), *Legally Blonde* (2001), *Ella Enchanted* (2004), *She's the Man* (2006), *The House Bunny* (2008) and *The Ugly Truth* (2009). McCullah has also written the novel *The Bachelorette Party* (2006) and is a faculty member at Syracuse University's Los Angeles Semester.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Ugly Truth* (2009), Fi1m 39, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ugly-truth.md)
- *Legally Blonde* (2001), Fi1m 78, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/legally-blonde.md)
- *10 Things I Hate About You* (1999), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/10-things-i-hate-about-you.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Crazy Kind of Love* (2013), Screenplay
- *The Ugly Truth* (2009), Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 39, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ugly-truth.md)
- *The House Bunny* (2008), Executive Producer, Writer
- *She's the Man* (2006), Screenplay
- *Ella Enchanted* (2004), Screenplay
- *Legally Blonde* (2001), Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/legally-blonde.md)
- *10 Things I Hate About You* (1999), Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/10-things-i-hate-about-you.md)
- *The Spice Girls*, Writer
- *Hope*, Writer
- *The Last Resort*, Writer
- *A Murder Uncorked*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Karen McCullah](https://film.one/media/person/97515/gallery-56da9d21dc0b.jpg) Karen McCullah — John Moore/Denver Actors Fund, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Karen_McCullah_%28cropped%29_at_Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Robert Luketic, Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah and filmgoer Carla Kaiser Kotrc attend a Denver Actors Fund screening of the film. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/97515/gallery-32a8fb7c0d56.jpg) Robert Luketic, Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah and filmgoer Carla Kaiser Kotrc attend a Denver Actors Fund screening of the film. (2016) — John Moore/Denver Actors Fund, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Robert_Luketic_Kirsten_Smith_and_Karen_McCullah_at_Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema.jpg/1280px-Robert_Luketic_Kirsten_Smith_and_Karen_McCullah_at_Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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