The advocacy of Miranda Kwok in The Cleaning Lady

The path to success is never really set in stone for anyone who comes to Hollywood. Only a certain percentage of people truly make it when they come to the west coast. The blood, sweat and tears sometimes are not enough. You have to heart and that is what Toronto-born Miranda Kwok came to the city of Angels for. The executive producer of The Cleaning Lady is now wrapping its first season on FOX. She is just starting to enjoy the fruits of her labour.

It wasn’t a bed of roses for Miranda Kwok when she first made the transition to Los Angeles from Toronto. Those beds were couches and futons of her friends giving a helping hand in the first chapters of her career. But Miranda knew she had to pound the pavement when creating opportunities. She worked night and day when it came to teaching herself to become a screenwriter. It was years before she won a Grand Prize in a Slamdance Screenplay Competition. She wrote about the military “comfort women” whom she felt really emphatic about.

Years after, Miranda landed a Staff Writer position on “Spartacus: Blood & Sand” on the Starz Network years after winning the prize of Slamdance. More recently, Miranda served as a writer and Supervisor Producer for “The 100” on the CW Network. She worked for four seasons on the Warner Bros. TV series.

Miranda Kwok is an advocate of opening opportunities for the South Asian community in the film and television industry. She has become quietly one of the leaders and pioneers of this movement. Now best known as the Creator and Executive Producer of the U.S. television series adaptation “The Cleaning Lady.” The show is based on the Argentine series “La Chica Que Limpia.” It is the first primetime series led by South Asians in front and behind the camera.