EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Miranda Kwok, the creator, author, actor and producer best known for creating and exec producing Fox’s crime drama The Cleansing Lady, for representation.
The series produced by Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment is predicated on Argentina’s La Chica Que Limpia. It centers on Thony (Elodie Yung), a whip-smart Cambodian doctor who involves the U.S. for a medical treatment to avoid wasting her son. When the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she is forced to make use of her cunning and intelligence to fight back, breaking the law for all the suitable reasons. Kwok wrote the pilot script and developed The Cleansing Lady for the Fox Network.
Kwok previously served as a author and supervising producer on The CW’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama series The 100, working on that series from Warner Bros. Television for 4 seasons. Her first screenplay, Song of Silence, won her the Slamdance Screenplay Competition’s Grand Prize—along with her first spec script landing her a staff author position on Starz’s Spartacus: Blood & Sand.
Kwok has worked as a author and story consultant on several theme park attractions and immersive experiences, including the 4D Film Streets of Fury and the 5D Film Ultimate Energy, for China’s Wanda Movie Park. (The latter was produced by Industrial Light & Magic.) She has also performed in over 40 film, television and stage productions, with notable credits including Scott Anderson’s 2007 adaptation of Richard III, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and ER.
Kwok continues to be represented by Mental Property Group and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
