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Biography
Grainne Godfree is an American television writer. She is well known for her work on The CW sister-series The Flash and Arrow.
Life and career
She attended Harvard University, graduating with a degree in History. She later entered the Columbia University film program, and spent three years as the assistant director of the schools film festival.
Her first foray into show business was with the 2008 short film Anjali. Which she wrote for director Maya Anand. It follows a rebellious Indian-American who is faced with the betrayal of her father.
The Tomorrow People
In 2013, she joined the American remake of the science-fiction series The Tomorrow People, as a writer. She contributed to four episodes of the series ("All Tomorrow's Parties", "The Citedel", "Brother's Keeper", "Modus Vivendi").
The Flash and Arrow
In summer 2014, Godfree was hired as a writer and story editor on The CW superhero series The Flash. She first co-wrote, with Alison Schapker, the series' third episode, "Things You Can't Outrun"; which introduced Ronnie Raymond. She co-wrote, again with Schapker, the seventh episode, "Power Outage". The episode featured villains The Clock King and Blackout.
She and executive producer Marc Guggenheim co-wrote a teleplay, based on a story by co-creators Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, for Arrow's 8th episode, of its third season, "The Brave and the Bold". It featured a crossover with sister-series The Flash; and served as an introduction tale for DC Comics supervillain Captain Boomerang.
Next on The Flash, Kai Yu Wu and Brooke Eikmeier co-penned a teleplay, based on a story by Godfree, for episode 16, "Rogue Time". She and Wu then co-scripted the eighteenth installment, "All Star Team Up"; which featured another crossover with Arrow, and the first teaming of the Flash and The Atom/Ray Palmer. The pair also wrote the twenty-first episode, "Grodd Lives", which featured the first full appearance of one of the Flash's foremost enemies, Gorilla Grodd.
At the star of the series' second season Godfree became executive story editor. Her first writing credit of the season came with the fifth episode, "The Darkness and the Light", which she co-wrote with consulting producer Ben Sokolowski. The episode introduced Doctor Light.