Raelle Tucker

Biography

Raelle Tucker is an American playwright, television writer, producer, and showrunner known for her work on acclaimed genre and drama series. She spent much of her childhood in Ibiza, Spain, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue a television career. She later attended the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, where she wrote and directed the short film The Clay Man.

Tucker received an early career opportunity through Project Greenlight, when a screenplay she co-wrote with Sera Gamble became one of the competition's finalists. She subsequently began writing for the ABC drama Eyes and joined Supernatural, where she worked as a writer and story editor.

Her breakthrough came with HBO's True Blood. Tucker worked on the series for six seasons as a writer and producer, eventually becoming an executive producer. Her work on the vampire drama earned nominations from the Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, Writers Guild of America, and Producers Guild of America.

She later served as an executive producer on AMC's The Returned and Netflix's Jessica Jones. Tucker also created the Facebook Watch series Sacred Lies, adapting Stephanie Oakes' novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly. The series follows a teenage cult survivor who escapes and becomes involved in a murder investigation.

In 2023, Tucker served as showrunner, executive producer, and writer on Amazon's science-fiction drama The Power, based on Naomi Alderman's novel. The series explores a world where teenage girls develop the ability to generate electricity, dramatically changing the balance of power between women and men.

Tucker has also expanded into literature. Her debut novel, Obscura, is a science-fiction fantasy story set on a mysterious island populated by magical beings.

With a career spanning television writing, producing, showrunning, theater, and fiction, Raelle Tucker is particularly recognized for True Blood, Supernatural, Jessica Jones, Sacred Lies, The Returned, and The Power.