Rhimes remarked that, 50 years ago, a black woman from a middle-class background – a person like herself – would have been serving Hollywood television executives food in the boardroom, not running her own TV shows and company. Shows created by Rhimes were part of the vanguard of television featuring women of color as protagonists. This passion, combined with her fiercely competitive nature, carried Rhimes through Dartmouth College to USC Film School, all the way to her current role as director of her own television production company, Shondaland. R himes has been a storyteller as long as she can remember. Shy, yet deeply creative, Rhimes fondly recalls how she would smuggle books outside when her mother forced her to go out and play. It’s not so hard to deduce: young Shonda was introverted. She still reminisces about this in interviews today! Rhimes’s powerful imagination could bring a shelf of cans to life, transforming them into tyrannous monarchs and mutinous citizens. In her head, cans of yams ruled the green beans and the tomato paste plotted to overthrow their regime. As a child growing up in Chicago, Illinois, Rhimes’s favorite hobby was playing pretend, which in her case meant hiding away in her mother’s pantry to invent stories and characters for all the non-perishable food items.
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