---
name: "Tamara Jenkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tamara-jenkins"
fi1m_id: "tamara-jenkins"
imdb_id: "nm0420982"
tmdb_id: 54240
wikidata_id: "Q524733"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "2 May 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:41:00.286270+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."
---

# Tamara Jenkins

## Identity

Tamara Jenkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tamara-jenkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tamara-jenkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0420982
- **TMDB ID:** 54240
- **Wikidata ID:** Q524733
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Jenkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54240

Writer. Born 2 May 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 2 May 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Jenkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q524733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54240

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Juliet, Naked*](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Tamara Jenkins is an American film director and screenwriter. She was born on 2 May 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jenkins studied at New York University’s Graduate Film Program and attended the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Filmmakers Lab. Her feature films include *Slums of Beverly Hills* (1998), which she wrote and directed, *The Savages* (2007), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and *Private Life* (2018). She also wrote the screenplay for *Juliet, Naked* (2018).

She has been married to screenwriter Jim Taylor since 2002.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Juliet, Naked* (2018), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Private Life* (2018), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Juliet, Naked* (2018), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/juliet-naked.md)
- *The Savages* (2007), Director, Writer
- *Conviction* (2006), series, as Woman at Party
- *Love in the Time of Money* (2002), as Gallery Owner
- *Happy Accidents* (2000), as Robin
- *Slums of Beverly Hills* (1998), Director, Writer
- *Family Remains* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Fugitive Love* (1992), Director

## Gallery

- ![The Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange is a CFC North South Marketplace Initiative in collaboration with Just for Laughs, designed to provide producers and (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/3852146/gallery-91e8d76f5a69.jpg) The Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange is a CFC North South Marketplace Initiative in collaboration with Just for Laughs, designed to provide producers and (2013) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Tamara_Jenkins_%2811327430963%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Tamara Jenkins in 2013](https://film.one/media/person/3852146/gallery-cb2617b63ea9.jpg) Tamara Jenkins in 2013 — Ernesto Di Stefano via Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Tamara_Jenkins_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Tamara_Jenkins_2013_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange is a CFC North South Marketplace Initiative in collaboration with Just for Laughs, designed to provide producers and (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/3852146/gallery-8b068479cf70.jpg) The Telefilm Canada Feature Comedy Exchange is a CFC North South Marketplace Initiative in collaboration with Just for Laughs, designed to provide producers and (2013) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Tamara_Jenkins_%2811327430963%29.jpg/1280px-Tamara_Jenkins_%2811327430963%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2008: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *The Savages*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Guggenheim Fellowship 1995: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)

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

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