---
name: "Oanh Ly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oanh-ly"
fi1m_id: "oanh-ly"
imdb_id: "nm2026757"
tmdb_id: 206820
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:22:30.308676+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."
---

# Oanh Ly

## Identity

Oanh Ly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oanh-ly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oanh-ly
- **IMDb ID:** nm2026757
- **TMDB ID:** 206820
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2026757/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/206820

Writer. Born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2026757/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/206820

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Criminal Minds*](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Oanh Ly is a Vietnamese-American television writer and producer. She was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam, and her family fled as boat refugees, spending time in a refugee camp in Malaysia before settling in Texas. She studied playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin and received a James Michener Playwriting Fellowship.

Ly began her television career on the CBS series *Criminal Minds* (2005), where she worked as a writer, story editor and executive story editor from 2007 to 2010. Subsequent credits include writing and producing on *Revolution* (2012), *The Messengers* (2015), *Black Box* (2014), *The Catch* (2016), *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018) and *Sweet Tooth* (2021). She has also mentored young writers at the Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival.

*Sources: capeusa.org, imdb.com, criminalminds.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Criminal Minds* (2005), Fi1m 60, Executive Story Editor, Story Editor, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Sweet Tooth* (2021), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina* (2018), series, Writer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Catch* (2016), series, Writer
- *The Messengers* (2015), series, Story, Writer
- *Revolution* (2012), series, Teleplay, Story, Co-Producer
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)

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