On May 18, 2012, Grey's Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, announced that Raver had decided to leave Grey's Anatomy after three seasons, " I know this season ’ s finale had some surprises for viewers and the exit of Kim Raver was one of the big ones.

Development on the film began in 2001, when Spears created a concept that was later expanded by Rhimes.

In the March 2, 2009 edition of People, Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator, head writer and executive producer stated that the claim was false.

In May 2007, Rhimes was named one of Time magazine's 100 people who help shape the world.

Rhimes was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a university administrator and a college professor.

Rhimes was ranked at the top of her class and earned the prestigious Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship Award.

A feature script Rhimes wrote was purchased by New Line Cinema.

In 2011, Rhimes served as executive producer for the medical drama, Off the Map, which was created by Grey's Anatomy writer, Jenna Bans.

Rhimes is best known as the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the acclaimed medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.

Rhimes is currently the creator, executive producer and head writer of Grey's Anatomy.

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

Shonda Rhimes ( born January 13, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

Rhimes has stated that she exhibited an early affinity for storytelling and that her time spent as a candy striper while in high school sparked an interest in hospital environments.

Though 2004's The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement ( 2004 ) did not score at the box office like its predecessor, Rhimes later said that she treasured the experience if for nothing else – the opportunity to work with its star, Julie Andrews.

Rhimes created a new pilot for ABC in 2010 called Inside the Box, a female-centric ensemble drama set in a Washington, D. C. network news bureau.

She will co-star on the upcoming ABC drama series Gilded Lillys created and produced by Shonda Rhimes.

She has also starred in the critically acclaimed independent films Our Song and The Dead Girl, and is the lead actress in the 2012 ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which Washington plays Olivia Pope, a former crisis management expert to the President.

Rhimes also created and produces the Grey's Anatomy spin-off series Private Practice.

In May 2011, ABC ordered Rhimes ' pilot script Scandal to series.

During this period, Rhimes also worked as research director on the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary, Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream ( 1995 ).

He mentioned her to Shonda Rhimes and commented on the resemblance Scorsone had to Patrick Dempsey ( the actor who plays Derek Shepherd ).

Rhimes adopted her first daughter, Harper, in June 2002 and adopted another girl in February 2012 named Emerson Pearl.

It could have something to do with creator Shonda Rhimes ' scalpel-sharp writing … or McDreamy's impossibly luxurious man hair.

Directed by Tamra Davis and written by Shonda Rhimes, the film features Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, and Anson Mount in the leading roles, with Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall, and Justin Long in supporting roles.

Knight said the reason he quit Grey's Anatomy is because of trust issues with the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes.

Rhimes resided in Park Forest South, Illinois ( now University Park ) with two older brothers and two older sisters.

Rhimes attended Marian Catholic High School, before enrolling at Dartmouth College, where she earned her Bachelor's Degree.

Rhimes would later relocate to Los Angeles to attend USC to study screenwriting.

Rhimes earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.

After graduation, Rhimes found herself an unemployed scriptwriter in Hollywood.

To make ends meet, Rhimes worked at a variety of day jobs, including as an office administrator, and then as a counselor at a job center that taught mentally ill and homeless people job skills.

Rhimes made her directorial debut in 1998 with the short film “ Blossoms and Veils ” starring Jada Pinkett-Smith and Jeffrey Wright.

In 2001, Rhimes wrote Crossroads, the debut film of pop singer Britney Spears.

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

The legislative mills have been grinding ever since, and when its cumbersome processes were no longer adequate to the task, a limited legislative authority was delegated in one form or another, to the executive.

Where possible, the name of an executive was supplied along with the company name and address.

There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.

If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

In 1890 when the trip to Europe and the Holy Land was arranged for Miss Packard, it was Miss Upton who planned the trip, and `` with rare executive ability '' bore the brunt of `` the entire pilgrimage from beginning to end ''.

The son of a wealthy Evanston executive was fined $100 yesterday and forbidden to drive for 60 days for leading an Evanston policeman on a high speed chase over icy Evanston and Wilmette streets Jan. 20.

Judge John B. Molinari was named chairman of the executive committee.

The executive branch of the government was composed of the President, the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.

In November 1972, Kolton was named as the exchange's first chief executive officer and its first salaried top executive.

By the summer of 1866 Johnson's method of restoring states to the Union by executive fiat, without safeguards for the Union Party or the freedmen, was in deep trouble.

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

In the 5th century there was in effect no procedural difference between an executive decree and a law: they were both simply passed by the assembly.

The only major Roman club to resist the merger was S. S. Lazio because of the intervention of the army General Vaccaro, member of the club and executive of Italian Football Federation.

The significance of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti from an accounting perspective lies in the fact that it illustrates that the executive authority had access to detailed financial information, covering a period of some forty years, which was still retrievable after the event.

The closeness of this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by Tacitus ' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself.

During his presidency, Clinton advocated for a wide variety of legislation and programs, much of which was enacted into law or was implemented by the executive branch.