Trivia

After graduating from Dartmouth, she read a news article that claimed that getting into USC's film school was harder than getting into Harvard Law School, so she elected to take on the more competitive challenge.

Has 3 daughters: two adopted daughters are named Harper Rhimes (b.2002) & Emerson Pearl Rhimes (b.February 1, 2012) and another one daughter named Beckett Rhimes (b.September 2013) who was born via surrogate mother.

Rhimes is the youngest of six children of a PhD teacher/mother and a father who is now chief information officer at the University of Southern California.

On the first day in September 2001 that she moved into a rental house in Vermont as a quiet place to finish a movie script, the World Trade Center was attacked, which prompted Rhimes to reassess her future and her goals. She decided her top priority was to adopt a child and nine months later she did, with daughter Harper, and became a single mother. Emerson followed in 2012.

She has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth (1991) and a master of fine arts (MFA) from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.

Maintains two rooms across from her studio for her two children.

In 2013, she and her Shondaland company partner Betsy Beers were named co-winners of the 2014 Directors Guild of America Diversity Award.

Suffers from fear of public speaking (glossophobia).

Her professional output is responsible for an estimated 70 hours of television per season.

Worked for few years as a film-development assistant before selling her first script.

She is the youngest in her family and has three sisters and two brothers.

Shed 117 lbs in a weight loss program. (2016)

Is a big fan of Game of Thrones (2011).

Interned for producer Debra Martin Chase while attending USC.

Born on exactly the same date as Keith Coogan.