Birthname: Brooke Busey
Date of Birth: 14 June 1978

theOscarSite Bio: Diablo Cody is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Minnesota to live with her Internet boyfriend, Jonny Hunt (whom she married in 2004). While there she decided, on a whim, to take up stripping as a hobby of sorts. Meanwhile, she was working in an advertising agency.

Within a year she got a promotion at the ad agency, which wore her ragged, and was something she did not particularly care for (it demanded organization, which is something at which she was not very good). Eventually, she quit her day job with Jonny's blessings and began stripping full-time. During the course of about a year she went from Amateur Night, which was her first stripping experience, to a place she refers to in her book as Sheiks, then to Déjà Vu, and so on. She then took up work as a phone-sex operator before returning to stripping.

Cody penned her debut screenplay JUNO while working as a phone sex operator/insurance adjuster in Minneapolis. She did not attend Harvard. In 2004, she authored the infamous and critically acclaimed memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. Most recently, she wrote and co-created a half-hour TV series, "The United States of Tara", to be executive produced by Steven Spielberg for Showtime. Cody is also working on her second book and various top-secret spec scripts.

· Best Achievement in Writing - Original Screenplay 2007: JUNO