Elaine Pope

{{short description|American film producer and writer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Elaine Pope

| birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|26|1978|5|1}}

| death_date =

| death_place =

| occupation = {{hlist|Writer|film producer}}

| relatives = Carole Pope (sister)

}}

Elaine Pope (born {{birth based on age as of date|26|1978|5|1|noage=yes}}){{cite news |date=1978-05-01 |title=In 1 Hour, 100 Propositions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/946762998/ |work=The Toronto Star |quote=...Elaine Pope, 26...It's a 12-minute walk to her job at the CBC... |page=C1 |access-date=2025-05-14}} is a Canadian writer and film producer. Born in Montreal, Quebec,{{cite news |last=Stone |first=Jay |date=2004-11-04 |title=Relating to Alfie the Cad |work=The Ottawa Citizen |page=E1}} Pope was writing for CBC Radio by the late 1970s,{{cite news |date=1979-11-15 |title=At Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/946816804/ |work=The Toronto Star |quote=CBC Radio kicks off another comedy...written by Elaine Pope and Barbara Nichol. |page=F15 |access-date=2025-05-14}} later writing TV specials for Lily Tomlin, including the 1981 TV special Lily: Sold Out, as well as the ABC-TV live sketch-comedy show Fridays (a rival of Saturday Night Live) and the HBO series Not Necessarily the News.

Pope won an Emmy Award for co-writing the episode "The Fix-Up" for the TV series Seinfeld{{cite news|title=Fran Drescher, Diane Keaton, Bill Robinson, Elaine Pope|author=Variety Staff|magazine=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2001/scene/people-news/fran-drescher-diane-keaton-bill-robinson-elaine-pope-1117857465/|date=December 17, 2001}}{{cite web|title=Elaine Pope|publisher=Made in Atlantis|url=http://madeinatlantis.com/filmmakers/elaine_pope_bio.htm}} and was the producer and co-writer for the 2004 remake of Alfie starring Jude Law.{{cite news|title=Film Review; A Modern-Day Charmer Who Lives for the Chase|first=Manohla|last=Dargis|authorlink=Manohla Dargis|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/movies/a-modernday-charmer-who-lives-for-the-chase.html?pagewanted=all|newspaper= The New York Times |date = November 5, 2004 |access-date = July 11, 2010}}