Kirsten Smith
- January 4, 2024
- Screenwriter
Quick Facts
Full Name | Kirsten Smith |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Date Of Birth | Aug 12, 1970(1970-08-12) |
Age | 54 |
Birthplace | New York |
Country | United States |
Birth City | New York |
Horoscope | Leo |
Kirsten Smith Biography
Name | Kirsten Smith |
Birthday | Aug 12 |
Birth Year | 1970 |
Place Of Birth | New York |
Home Town | New York |
Birth Country | United States |
Birth Sign | Leo |
Kirsten Smith is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on August 12, 1970 in New York, New York, United States. Screenwriter who is best known for her screenplays that promoted a sense of girl power (like 2006’s She’s the Man).
She wrote the film Ella Enchanted, which starred singer/actor, Jesse McCartney.
A native of Port Ludlow, Washington, she moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to attend Occidental College. There, she studied English and Film, and also got an internship at CineTel Films, an independent film company. Initially planning on pursuing poetry and academia as a career, she began working for CineTel reading scripts and writing coverage for them. This led to a full-time job there as a Director of Development in 1995; it was there she began pursuing screenwriting in earnest. One of the scripts she happened to read and cover was written by Karen Lutz, an aspiring writer living in Denver, Colorado. The two women formed a friendship over the phone, and when Lutz came to Los Angeles, they met in person, and began writing their first script on cocktail napkins that night. That script never sold, but it inspired the women to write together again, and they embarked on a teen comedy called 10 Things I Hate About You, inspired by William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.
Having published more than 40 poems in various literary magazines in the 1990s, Smith published her first novel-in-verse, The Geography of Girlhood, in
- The coming-of-age story of a teenage girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it contains a smattering of the poems Smith wrote and published in her early twenties.
She was raised in NYC.
Kirsten Smith Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Screenwriter |
House | Living in own house. |
Kirsten Smith is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kirsten Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She got her start as a poet, having published over 40 in her career.
Her film, The House Bunny, grossed nearly $50,000,000 domestically.
Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (born August 12, 1970) is an American screenwriter and novelist whose credits include Legally Blonde and Ella Enchanted. She has written most of her screenplays with her screenwriter partner Karen McCullah. Most of the scripts seem to follow the girl Power movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip It!, starred Ellen Page and was directed by Drew Barrymore, and she also produced American Virgin in 2009, starring Jenna Dewan and Rob Schneider.
Facts & Trivia
Kirsten Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kirsten Smith celebrates birthday on August 12 of every year.