Fran Walsh

Frances Rosemary Walsh is a screenwriter, lyricist and a producer from Wellington, New Zealand-born on 10 January 1959. She is the wife of Peter Jackson Peter Jackson is a New Zealand based director, pro >> Read More... , who is an appreciated film-maker, mostly known for his ‘Lord of Rings series.’ She is noted for her support to her husband’s movies like ‘Meet the Feebles,’ ‘Lord of Rings: The Return of the King’ and others. She has been nominated seven times for Academy Awards and has won three namely, Best Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Original Song.

She belonged to the Irish ancestry and wanted to become a fashion designer. She passed out from the Wellington Girls College and later joined the Victoria University of Wellington with majors in English Literature and graduated in 1981. She was interested in music and performed in bands during college one of which was ‘Punk Rock’. She has two kids Billy and Kate.

She first wrote her script for the producer Grahame McLean in 1983 for his TV series ‘A Woman of Good Character’ after which she wrote scripts for other shows as well.

She met Peter Jackson in mid of the 1980s when he was doing his first movie which was a small budget one named as ‘Bad Taste.’ They both later collaborated on for his films, the first one was ‘Meet the Feebles’ which was a dark comedy released in 1989. After this, ‘Dead Alive’ which was earlier named ‘Braindead’, a horror movie, was released where writer Stephen Sinclair was involved. They went on to do several films, like ‘Heavenly Creatures’ in 1994, ‘The Frighteners’ in 1996 and others which were popularly loved by the audience. When the Universal Studios decided against the remake of King Kong King Kong is an Indian film Actor and comedian ass >> Read More... , he decided to try his hand at fantasy and made Lord of Rings, which was the work of the writer JRR Tolkien. It was not very widespread then. It gained support by Miramax Films and New Line Cinemas with production and others.

As we know it, Lord of Rings series was a legendary success, the cast and crew won many nominations and awards among which Academy Award was one. Many well-admired actors like Elijah Wood Elijah Jordan Wood is an actor from Hollywood, and >> Read More... , Ian McKellen No writer could ever describe him. As a writer, fo >> Read More... , Viggo Mortensen He is a talented actor, musician, photographer, pa >> Read More... , starred in the movie. She won three Academy awards for screenplay, music and picture.

Later in 2005, an affirmative nod was given to remake of King Kong, and they collaborate again together! The couple came together for the making of ‘The Lovely Bones’ which was a novel and then for the series ‘Hobbit’ which also was well appreciated by critics and audience loved it worldwide. She has put equal love and hard work in all the movies, especially in Lord of Rings and Hobbit series. She continues to work on much more films with her screen-writing and musical skills!

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Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Fran Walsh is a New Zealand screenwriter, film producer, and lyricist. Initially, she was keen on going down the road of fashion to become a fashion designer. However, something shook along the lines, and suddenly, she got interested in celebrating the idea of pursuing her career in music. She sometimes performed with the band named, “The Wallsockets” while majoring in English. First, she debuted into this industry by writing for the television film, “A Woman of Good Character” and further, writing scripts for the show, “WorzelGummidge Down Under.”

After encountering Peter Jackson, Walsh collaborated with the man for a lot of projects for script-writing like, “Meet the Feebles”, the zombie movie called, “Braindead,” “Heavenly Creatures,” based on a true story where a set of teenagers notoriously kill one of their mothers. This movie earned them an Oscar nomination in the screenplay category. Delving into the American scene, Universal Studios sponsored a project based on the horror-comedy genre called, “The Frighteners.” She became the producer with Peter Jackson with the movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”. Her success can be rightfully measured as per the number of awards that she has received just for one film, that is “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”.

The awards that she acquired are namely, Academy Awards for “Best Film”, “Best Adapted Screenplay”, and “Best Original Song”. Moreover, she doled out seven Oscar nominations for the same movie, winning one of them successfully. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have also teamed up on the movies, “King Kong”, “Lovely Bones” (not as successful), and the three-film edition of “The Hobbit”. Behaviourally, she is sort of a private person, attending lesser interviews than Peter Jackson.