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name: "Sally Nemeth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sally-nemeth"
roles: ["Writer"]
died: "30 July 2021"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:14.507546+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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# Sally Nemeth

Writer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 30 July 2021.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Died:** 30 July 2021
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22442972, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625931/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/171051

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Law & Order*](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) (72)

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## Biography

Sally Nemeth was an American writer, playwright and novelist. She began her career in Chicago theatre in the early 1980s, co-founding the Chicago New Plays Festival Company, and wrote several plays including *Holy Days* and *Mill Fire*.

She contributed episodes to the television series *Law & Order* (1992–1993), for which she received awards from the American Bar Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Other television credits include *Crime & Punishment* (1993), *The Trials of Rosie O'Neill* (1992) and the television film *Right on Track* (2003). She also wrote for *Law & Order: UK* (2009). Her young-adult novel *The Heights, the Depths, and Everything in Between* was published in 2006.

Nemeth attended Northwestern University and later taught screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University. She died in Los Angeles on 30 July 2021.

*Sources: imdb.com, encyclopedia.com, chicagoreader.com, bhamwiki.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Fi1m 72, Teleplay, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Also known for

- *Right on Track* (2003), Writer

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