Education
Columbia University.
director model novelist screenwriter
Columbia University.
She has written several films, including 2000"s Bring lieutenant On, 2004"s First Daughter and 2006"s Aquamarine. She was also a writer and creative consultant for Sex and the City, as well as a producer of the 2005 film The Wedding Date, starring Debra Messing. She also wrote and directed Stick lieutenant, released in April 2006 as her directorial debut.
Bendinger is a former model who worked for designer Stephen Sprouse and appeared on the runway in the film Slaves of New New York
She was named by Glamour Magazine as one of Hollywood’s “Most Powerful Women Under 40” in 2005. Bendinger"s first novel, The Seven Rays was published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster.
The story follows 17-year-old, Beth Michaels, who uncovers elements of the supernatural on her journey of self-discovery. In 2011, Bendinger co-wrote the song "Hurts To Think" on Miranda Lambert’s Four the Record, and "Mostly Grey,” co-written with Emerson Hart, which appears on his 2014 album "Beauty in Disrepair".