---
name: "Marilyn Osborn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marilyn-osborn"
fi1m_id: "marilyn-osborn"
imdb_id: "nm0651580"
tmdb_id: 1226496
wikidata_id: "Q16209986"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:19:20.343431+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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# Marilyn Osborn

## Identity

Marilyn Osborn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marilyn-osborn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marilyn-osborn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0651580
- **TMDB ID:** 1226496
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16209986
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Osborn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16209986, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226496

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1993–1999
- **Also known as:** Marilyn Osborne
- **Frequently works with:** [Chris Brancato](https://film.one/person/chris-brancato.md), [Daniel Sackheim](https://film.one/person/daniel-sackheim.md), [Michelle MacLaren](https://film.one/person/michelle-maclaren.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Osborn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16209986, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651580/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1226496

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The X-Files*](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) (84)

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## Biography

Marilyn Osborn is an American television writer and producer. She began her career in the early 1990s, writing episodes of series including *Silk Stalkings* (1993) and *The Commish* (1993).

She wrote the *The X-Files* episode 'Shapes' (1994) and contributed to *Space: Above and Beyond* (1995–1996) as a writer and executive story editor. Other writing credits include multiple episodes of *Touched by an Angel* (1994–1998) and *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (2001). She has also worked as a consulting producer on series such as *Promised Land*, *L.A. Doctors* and *The Following*.

Osborn has collaborated with writer Jeff Eckerle on projects including *Unnatural History* (2010), *Tower Prep* (2010) and *Those Who Kill* (2014).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The X-Files* (1993), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Lore* (2017), series, Writer
- *Signed, Sealed, Delivered* (2014), series, Writer
- *The Following* (2013), series, Consulting Producer, Writer
- *Tower Prep* (2010), series, Writer
- *Unnatural History* (2010), series, Writer, Story
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, Writer
- *L.A. Doctors* (1998), series, Writer
- *Space: Above and Beyond* (1995), series, Writer
- *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, Writer
- *The X-Files* (1993), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md)
- *Silk Stalkings* (1991), series, Writer

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