Biography
Nancy Oliver (born 8 February 1955) is an American playwright and screenwriter. She earned a BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MA in acting and directing from Florida State University, where she met Alan Ball.
Oliver joined the writing staff of the HBO series Six Feet Under (2001) in its third season as a staff writer and later served as co-producer and story editor. She wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film Lars and the Real Girl, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. She later worked as a writer and producer on True Blood (2008) and wrote episodes of Here and Now (2018). In 2022 she created the miniseries Angelyne.
