Education
Walley-Beckett was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Walley-Beckett was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.
She is the creator of television series Flesh and Bone. In 1982, she joined the Arts Club Theatre Company. Walley-Beckett worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s as a television actress.
She had guest starring roles on many different series.
Walley-Beckett began writing for television in 2007 as a staff writer for a short-lived National Broadcasting Company detective drama Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum. In 2008 she joined the writing staff for the legal drama Eli Stone and penned the episode "Heal the Pain".
She joined the crew of Breaking Bad as a story editor for the second season and wrote the episodes "Breakage" and "Over". The second season writing staff were nominated for the s Guild of America (WGA) Award for best drama series at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the second season.
She was promoted to co-producer for the third season in 2010 and wrote the episodes "Mas" and (with Sam Catlin) "Fly." She was promoted again to producer for the fourth season in 2011.
Foreign the fifth season, Walley-Beckett wrote "Gliding Over All" and "Ozymandias". The latter received universal praise from critics, and has since been called one of the greatest episodes of television ever broadcast.