Gale Anne Hurd

Gale Anne Hurd is an American movie and television producer. She was born on 25 October 1955 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. She is the daughter of Frank E. Hurd, an investor, and Lolita (née Espiau). She has Jewish-Catholic parentage. Her father was a Jewish and her mother, Roman Catholic. She got raised by them in Palm Springs, California, United States of America. She completed her graduation with a BA in economics and communications from Stanford University. In 1977, she was also a minor in political science. She worked as an executive assistant of Roger Corman, president of New World Pictures Company.

She worked at various positions in the film industry. She was at many administrative positions and soon became a part of production division. In 1982, she founded her production company named Pacific Western Productions. Her company produced various box-office hit films such as Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989) and The Terminator (1984). In 1985, she got married to James Cameron James Francis Cameron is one of the most successfu >> Read More... whom she divorced in 1989. In 1991, she had produced the movie named Cast a Deadly Spell.She married director Brian De PalmaI in 1991 for four years. In 1995, she tied the knot with screenwriter/director Jonathan Hensleigh Jonathan Blair Hensleigh was born on February 1959 >> Read More... . In 1998, she garnered the Women in Film Crystal Award for “Outstanding Women.”

It was awarded to her for her endurance and excellence in the work and expanding the scope for other women in the entertainment industry. In 2003, she received the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology along with Sir Arthur C. Clarke at Telluride, Colorado. In 2010, she produced AMC’s drama series called The Walking Dead. In 2011, she went on to become the administrator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2012, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she won a star. In 2013, the Athena Film Festival awarded Gale Anne Hurd with the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award at Barnard College in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , United States of America. She got it for her courage and demonstration of leadership which inspired other women to emulate. As a producer, she has films like Downtown (1990), The Waterdance (1992), Safe Passage (1994), Armageddon (1998) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) to her credit. She has been the writer for The Terminator (1984), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), Terminator Salvation Click to look into! >> Read More... (2009), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Genisys Click to look into! >> Read More... (2015). Currently, she is recording secretary at the Producers Guild of America.