Francesca Sloane

Biography

Francesca Sloane is an American screenwriter and television producer best known for co-creating the Prime Video spy series Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Donald Glover. She was raised between Philadelphia and El Salvador and studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts before earning a master's degree in screenwriting from UCLA. Her feature screenplay Headbangers won a UCLA screenwriting competition.

Sloane began her professional television writing career in 2017 with the series StartUp. She subsequently wrote for Seven Seconds and The First, before joining the writing team of FX's Fargo in 2020, where she also worked as a producer.

She later collaborated with Donald Glover on Atlanta, writing several episodes and serving as a supervising producer. Her work on the series helped lead to her collaboration with Glover on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

For Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024), Sloane served as co-creator, executive producer, showrunner, and writer. She wrote six of the show's eight episodes during its first season. The series reimagines the 2005 film as a character-driven spy comedy-drama centered on two strangers who become partners in espionage while posing as a married couple.

Sloane received two Primetime Emmy nominations for her work on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the episode “First Date.”

Her career is notable for combining sharp humor, emotional character development, and genre storytelling. Her major credits include The First, Fargo, Atlanta, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, establishing her as an accomplished writer and producer in contemporary American television.