Cody created, wrote, and produced the Showtime comedy drama series United States of Tara (2009–2011). She wrote, produced, and made her directorial debut with the comedy drama film Paradise (2013). Cody also wrote and produced the horror comedy film Jennifer's Body (2009), the comedy drama film Young Adult (2011), which earned her a second nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, the musical comedy film Ricki and the Flash (2015), and the comedy drama film Tully (2018).
Cody won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Jagged Little Pill, her first musical-theater undertaking. She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Writer's Branch since 2008.
Diablo Cody was born Brook Busey on June 14, 1978 in Lemont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where she and her older brother Marc were raised. She is the daughter of Pam and Greg Busey. Her mother is of Italian descent and her father is of German ancestry. Cody was raised Apostolic Christian and attended SS. Cyril & Methodius School and Benet Academy, Roman Catholic schools in the Chicago suburbs. At this time, she went by her birth name Brook.

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