Background
Sud was born in Toronto to Mohendra Sud, a physician born in India. She grew up in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb near Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Sud was born in Toronto to Mohendra Sud, a physician born in India. She grew up in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sud graduated from Cincinnati Country Day School in 1985 and attended Barnard College, where she studied political science and women"s studies and served as university senator
She is best known for developing the American television drama, which is based on the Danish series Forbrydelsen (The Crime). She is of Filipino and Indian heritage. After graduating from Barnard in 1989, she spent several years working as a journalist at Pacifica Radio and at the media-watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
When she was 28, she enrolled at New York University"s film school and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Film and Television program at New York University. After graduation, she directed Music Television"s The Real World for one year and later moved to Los Los Angeles
She was an episode writer for the 2002 television series Push, Nevada before it got cancelled. She met Meredith Stiehm, the creator of the Columbia Broadcasting System police drama Cold Case, who hired her as a writer
Three years later, she became the show’s executive producer. Her credits on also include writer and executive producer.
The series earned her an Emmy nomination and a Writers Guild of America award nomination.
In February 2012, Paramount Pictures announced that Sud is writing a remake of Alfred Hitchcock"s Suspicion. She was formerly the marketing and distribution director for Third World Newsreel, which specializes in films by and about people of color.
