Miranda Kwok is a Canadian-American screenwriter, actor, and television producer best known as the creator and executive producer of the Fox drama series The Cleaning Lady, which premiered on January 3, 2022. Education and accolades Kwok began her studies in the arts at the age of ten when she attended the Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto, Canada. She majored in visual arts and minored in drama and dance. Kwok made her television debut at the age of thirteen and has performed in several leading, supporting, and guest-starring roles in film, television, and theatre. Kwok continued her education at Earl Haig Secondary School, where she completed the Claude Watson Arts Program as well as the Academy Program for the intellectually gifted. She also completed an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Toronto. During the same time, Kwok volunteered her services as a crisis intervention counselor at a community women's shelter and two rape crisis centers. She was a participant in "Project: Involve", a mentorship program at the IFP in Los Angeles. Through its directors, Kwok was recommended for and subsequently won a full scholarship award at the Los Angeles Film School for their Feature Development Program, which she completed with Honors. Kwok is a Black Belt in the Chinese martial art of Wushu. The actress won the grand prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition for a historical drama entitled Song of Silence. Kwok was on the front cover of the February 2008 edition of The North York Post. She is an honoree of the 2009 CBS Diversity Initiative Writers Mentoring Program, the 2010 WGA Writer Access Project for professional screenwriters, and the 2021 WGA's Showrunner Training Program. Writing career Kwok worked as a staff writer on the first season of Spartacus: Blood and Sand, an original television drama on Starz Network. She wrote Episode 105, "Shadow Games", and co-wrote Episode 110, "Party Favors". In 2014, Entertainment One Television acquired format rights to the Finnish fantasy drama series Nymphs, to develop and produce a U.S. version of the series, to be written by Kwok. In 2016, Kwok joined the writing staff of the television series The 100 on the CW Network. She worked on the series as a writer and producer for four seasons, ultimately serving as supervising producer in 2020. The Cleaning Lady Kwok created the American drama television series The Cleaning