[2][3] Her other writing credits include the screenplay of The Rocker (2008) and many episodes of The Larry Sanders Show.

Forbes received Emmy and WGA Award nominations for her work on The Larry Sanders Show.

Forbes is married to Wally Wolodarsky,[4] who was co-screenwriter of The Rocker and a producer of Infinitely Polar Bear.

Forbes based Infinitely Polar Bear on her own experiences as a child in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when her father—who had bipolar disorder—was the primary caregiver for Forbes and her sister while their mother was studying for an MBA at Columbia Business School in New York City.

[2] Her mother, upon graduating, went to work for Wall Street, first in the futures market at E. F. Hutton, and then for Merrill Lynch, where she remained for nearly a decade.