- Patty Lin is a writer and producer known for Freaks and Geeks (1999), Friends (1994), Desperate Housewives (2004), and Breaking Bad (2008). She has also written pilots for Fox, CBS, and Nickelodeon. Her Breaking Bad episode, "Gray Matter," was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. She retired from TV writing in 2009 and is the author of End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood (2023).- IMDb mini biography by: Patty Lin
- SpouseMike Carter(2008 - present)
- Patty got her start in show business as a college intern at Late Night with David Letterman (1982).
- Occasionally appears in background acting roles.
- Daughter of Taiwanese immigrants.
- In 2023 she published her memoirs "End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood".
- "They all knew how to get a laugh, but if they didn't like a joke, they seemed to deliberately tank it, knowing we'd rewrite it...Dozens of good jokes would get thrown out just because one of them had mumbled the line through a mouthful of bacon." Working on FRIENDS during the 7th Season while the cast was pampered with breakfast during table-reads.
- On the cast of FRIENDS by Season 7 when she started working on the show. "The actors seemed unhappy to be chained to a tired old show when they could be branching out, and I felt like they were constantly wondering how every given script would specifically serve them."
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