---
name: "Molly Newman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/molly-newman"
fi1m_id: "molly-newman"
imdb_id: "nm0628214"
tmdb_id: 1215706
wikidata_id: "Q6896647"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:39:39.294582+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."
---

# Molly Newman

## Identity

Molly Newman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/molly-newman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** molly-newman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0628214
- **TMDB ID:** 1215706
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6896647
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Newman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6896647, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215706

Writer. Born 1 January 1901 in Evansville.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1901, Evansville
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Newman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6896647, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628214/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215706

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Frasier*](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md) (88)

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

## Biography

Molly Newman is an American television writer and producer. She is from Evansville, Indiana, and began her career as a playwright, co-authoring the musical *Quilters* with Barbara Damashek; it premiered on Broadway in 1984 and earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 1985.

Newman moved into television in the early 1990s as a story editor and writer on *The Larry Sanders Show*. She wrote episodes of *Frasier* (1994), *Murphy Brown* (1994), *Sisters* and *7th Heaven*, and served as supervising producer and writer on *Tracey Takes On...* (1996–1998), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series in 1998. Later credits include writing and producing on *Brothers & Sisters* (2006–2011), *Political Animals* (2012) and *Code Black* (2015–2016).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Frasier* (1993), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Political Animals* (2012), series, Writer
- *Brothers and Sisters* (2006), series, Producer
- *Ball & Chain* (2001), Writer
- *Tracey Takes On...* (1996), series, Writer, Producer
- *Frasier* (1993), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/frasier.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 1985: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominated), for *Quilters*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/molly-newman