Background and career
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (; born December 1, 1977), also known as Cherry Cheva, is an American author, screenwriter, comedian, producer, and lawyer. She was an executive producer of Family Guy (at one time, its only female writer) and a co-executive producer of The Orville and Resident Alien. She co-wrote and produced the 2023 film Joy Ride.
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong was born to a Thai family in 1977, in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from Huron High School in 1995, where she took several AP classes, editing the school's newspaper and played in orchestra. She majored in psychology at Yale University, where she wrote for The Yale Record, the college's humor magazine. She later earned a Juris Doctor degree from New York University Law School, where she wrote for the comedic Law Revue. During law school, she spent her summers working at law firms and her winter breaks waiting tables at her parents' restaurant.
Chevapravatdumrong later moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing. Before working on Family Guy, she was a writer's assistant on the CBS series Listen Up She released two young adult novels, She's So Money and DupliKate, under the name Cherry Cheva.
Chevapravatdumrong was at one time the only female writer on Family Guy (a fact mentioned in the episode "Roasted Guy"), and also a co-executive producer. Her last name was used in its entirety in the episode "And I'm Joyce Kinney" as the real last name of Joyce Kinney. When asked why she changed her name, Joyce responds "because they would never let that name [Chevapravatdumrong] on TV." In the episode "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" Peter breaks the fourth wall by rearranging the letters of her name in the opening credits to say "Chemotherapy vanguard vCr" (with one "r" left over, which he throws at Lois in a childlike tantrum when she points this out). In the episode "Dead Dog Walking", Peter again breaks the fourth wall by saying that her address is 11700 Hollywood Way, North Hollywood, CA 91065 (an address that does not actually exist), and that she is also a lawyer. In the episode "No Giggity, No Doubt", Peter lists her name among examples of people (mainly other Family Guy characters, increasing in obscurity) who should go on an excursion with Meg: "Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, that's how that name is pronounced." In the episode "The Bird Reich", Stewie lists her name among several others as examples of "Family Guy writers who wrote books, and nobody's ever heard of them".
She also worked with Seth MacFarlane on the sci-fi series The Orville.
"Firestorm" (Season 1, Episode 10) "Home" (Season 2, Episode 3) "Sanctuary" (Season 2, Episode 12) "Mortality Paradox" (Season 3, Episode 3)
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
