 She won an Emmy Award for writing the screenplay for the miniseries "Olive Kitteridge" (2014).Prior to film directing, Anderson wrote and directed several critically acclaimed television movies, notably "Normal" (2003), starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson; "The Baby Dance" (1998), starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom" (1993), "When Billie Beat Bobby" starring Holly Hunter; and "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (segment "1961") (2000), which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy Award for her portrayal of an elderly lesbian prevented from hospital visitation with her dying long-time companion.She became a writer for the AMC television drama "Mad Men" for the show's second season.