It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

She was the second of four children by her father's first marriage and another by his second. As part of the senior production team Melissa Rosenberg was also co-nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series award at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. Her mother was Patricia Rosenberg a lawyer.

Spiro and they live in Los Angeles. C. She majored in Dance and Theatre at Bennington College in Vermont but Melissa Rosenberg later graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master's Degree in Film and Television Producing.