Mara Brock Akil is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on May 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, United States. She was awarded the NAACP Image Award and BET Comedy Awards, for her television writing on Girlfriends. She also contributed to episodes South Central, Moesha and The The recipient of NAACP Image and BET Comedy Awards for her television writing work on the series Girlfriends, she also contributed to episodes of South Central, Moesha, and The Jamie Foxx Show..
Frasier actor She and Frasier actor Kelsey Grammer co-created and produced UPN’s Girlfriends. were co-creators and producers of UPN’s Girlfriends.
She graduated from Raytown South High School in 1988. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and became a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. After she graduated from Northwestern in 1992, Brock Akil decided to put her career plans in journalism on hold to work as a manager at the Howard Street Gap in Chicago and look for opportunities to work within Chicago’s entertainment industry. She decided to change careers after securing the role of Ms. Moore in the 1994 film With Honors. This role inspired Brock Akil to return to Los Angeles to start her career.
Brock Akil first began writing for television in 1994 writing for the critically acclaimed but short-lived Fox series South Central. In 1999, she served as supervising producer and writer on The Jamie Foxx Show after writing for Moesha for four seasons. In 2000, Brock Akil created and executive produced (along with Kelsey Grammer) another UPN series, Girlfriends. She also created and executive produced a spin-off to Girlfriends, The Game. In 2009, Brock Akil became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC suburban sitcom Cougar Town. She is the creator of BET’s Being Mary Jane, which premiered in 2013.
Although she was born in Los Angeles and raised in Kansas City, she is a native Californian. She was raised in a Muslim home and married Salim Akil, a Sufi Muslim director. Akil and she welcomed their sons Yasin in 2007 and Nasir 2009, respectively.
