Raelle Tucker

Raelle Tucker is an American playwright, television writer, producer, and showrunner, best known for her work on HBO's True Blood, Netflix's Jessica Jones, and for the Facebook Watch series Sacred Lies, which she created based on Stephanie Oakes's novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly. Early life Tucker was raised by her fashion and costume designer mother, Joy Borne, in Ibiza, Spain. Her mother was briefly involved in the Rajneesh movement featured in the Netflix docu-series Wild Wild Country. Her father was playwright, Neil Tucker, who died from AIDS in 1995. Growing up on a rural island without a TV, Tucker founded a theater company and began writing and directing plays to entertain herself and her community. Career After moving to Los Angeles as a teenager, Tucker spent several years supporting herself as a waitress and exotic dancer while she wrote and produced plays like Will Strip For Food and Eve Of Paradise, before attending the American Film Institute's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, where she directed a short film The Clay Man, based on Jewish folktales of the Golem.