Marilyn Fu

Marilyn Fu is the screenwriter of Rosemead, a feature film starring Lucy Liu and based on the award-winning Los Angeles Times article by Frank Shyong. The film earned her a 2025  nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards, one of Asia’s highest honors in cinema, and is currently playing in theaters in New York and opens in Los Angeles on December 12. She is a writer on Peacock’s espionage thriller series, The Copenhagen Test, executive produced by James Wan and starring Simu Liu and she wrote the pilot for the Will Packer/Roma Downey-produced The Baxters on Amazon Prime. In features, she wrote The Honor List, released by Lionsgate, and The Sisterhood of Night based on a Steven Millhauser story, for which she won an award at Tribeca. Earlier in her career, she was a writer/reporter for over 40 publications under Time Inc. She earned her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she became the first recipient of the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and later returned to teach television writing. She lives in New York with her husband, actor Graham Sibley and their sons, Lyon and K.P. (Photo by Joe Turner Lin.)

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A Life in Movies: From Eat, Drink, Man, Woman to Rosemead

By Marilyn Fu | December 9, 2025

A Life in Movies: From Eat, Drink, Man, Woman to Rosemead

Rosemead screenwriter Marilyn Fu retraces her life in relation to Ang Lee and his work, culminating in her meeting him last month in Taiwan.