Liz Brixius

{{short description|American television writer and producer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_place = Excelsior, Minnesota, U.S.

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| partner = Ali Adler (2013–2017)

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Liz Brixius is an American television writer and producer.

In 2008 Brixius, Linda Wallem, and Evan Dunsky, created the series Nurse Jackie, a half-hour drama about a "flawed" emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS19931+19-Jul-2008+PRN20080719|title=Showtime Puts Nurse Jackie On Call|date=July 18, 2008|publisher=Reuters.com|accessdate=March 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809194755/https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS19931+19-Jul-2008+PRN20080719|archivedate=August 9, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_nurse_jackie_star_edie_falco_marylouise_.html|title=Nurse Jackie star Edie Falco, Mary-Louise Parker, more strong women lift Showtime|last=Kinon|first=Cristina|date=February 16, 2009|work=New York Daily News|publisher=NYDailyNews.com|accessdate=March 8, 2009|archive-date=February 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220173148/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/02/16/2009-02-16_nurse_jackie_star_edie_falco_marylouise_.html|url-status=dead}} Starring Edie Falco of The Sopranos, the series premiered on Showtime in June 2009, with Wallem and Brixius serving as showrunners for the series and sharing executive producer duties with Caryn Mandabach.

Brixius left Nurse Jackie in the spring of 2012 after signing a two-year development deal with Universal TV.

Brixius was engaged to producer Ali Adler.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/fashion/mens-style/ali-adler-supergirl-writer-rescues-the-sexually-befuddled-man.html |title=Ali Adler, 'Supergirl' Writer, Rescues the Sexually Befuddled Man |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 June 2015 |accessdate=2015-10-16|last1=Haber |first1=Matt }} They broke up in May 2017.