Tassie Cameron

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Tassie Cameron in October 2008

Tassie Cameron is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian screenwriter who has contributed to numerous television shows and films. She is currently the head writer and executive producer on the Global Television Network/ABC series Rookie Blue. She was a story editor and writer on CTV'S Degrassi: The Next Generation; an executive story editor and writer for two seasons of CTV's prime-time drama The Eleventh Hour (for which she co-won the Gemini for Best Writing with Semi Chellas); and a writer and story editor on CBC's Tom Stone. In 2007, she adapted Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride into a television movie. Cameron also co-wrote with Esta Spalding the acclaimed CTV mini-series Would Be Kings, garnering them a Gemini nomination.

She spent eight years in New York working in independent film and at HBO television. She has a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Trinity College of the University of Toronto, Master's degree in film from New York University, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. She spent her formative years at Elmwood School an all-girls school in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa. She is the daughter of journalist Stevie Cameron and she has also worked as a screenwriting instructor at the Humber School for Writers.

References

• Tassie Cameron at the Internet Movie Database
• CTV.ca biography
• Northern Stars biography
• CBC.ca - Q&A with Tassie Cameron about The Robber Bride
• Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television database query