Shonda Rhimes earned $350 million from television and ABC never once paid her fairly
Billionaires Africa | 20.06.2026 11:14
The youngest of six children, born on January 13, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois, Shonda Lynn Rhimes grew up in a house built by educators. Her father was a university administrator. Her mother was a university professor. They filled the house with books and with the expectation that words mattered, that stories were serious, and that the children who grew up inside those walls would do something consequential with what they had been given. Rhimes has said she grew up believing she would be the next Toni Morrison. Morrison already had that job, as Rhimes later put it, so she needed another plan.
