Lauren Shuler Donner
Lauren Shuler Donner was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States on June 23rd, 1949 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 74, Lauren Shuler Donner biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Lauren Diane Shuler Donner (born June 23, 1949) is an American film director who specializes in mainstream youth and family-oriented entertainment.
With her partner, director Richard Donner, she owns The Donners' Company.
Her films have grossed $4.5 billion worldwide, mainly due to the X-Men film series.
Personal life
Donner has liberal political convictions and likes to work on films that represent her convictions – Dave for politics, Free Willy for marine life, and Hotel for Animals for animal rights. Canine Companions is a charity that helps Canine Companions. Planned Parenthood and TreePeople's advisory boards have served on Planned Parenthood and TreePeople. She has been a long-serving board member of LupusLA. Donner recently joined the MPTF's Board (Motion Picture Film Television Fund). In addition, she helps Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles and UCLA Hospitals, as well as Boston University.
Early life and career
Donner was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied film at Boston University, specializing in production and editing. She moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of entering the entertainment industry after a teacher's recommendation.
While Donner was a Los Angeles assistant editor of educational and medical films, a chance meeting at NBC headquarters inspired her to leave her information there. Shuler, who was taught by the crew of The Tonight Show, has asked NBC to cover the local news. After being freelance on Metromedia, she spent time on rock concert shoots, sitcoms, and television films. Donner was the first woman admitted to the IATSE Electrical and Camera Guild #659.
Donner decided to work as an associate producer after being recruited by ABC's Wide World of Entertainment in 1976. Donner began working with screenwriter friends and became a creative executive/story editor on Motown Productions following a traffic accident that had her hospitalized for months. Thanks to her involvement on the script of Thank God It's Friday (1978) she became an associate producer on the film. She made her television debut in 1979 with the acclaimed Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill, a television film written and directed by Joel Schumacher in the style of Robert Altman's Nashville. She got the job by directly calling NBC programming director Charles Engel.
Feature film production career
Donner, while working at Motown, became a personal friend of National Lampoon writer John Hughes and begged him to write a script that would be her debut feature film. Michael Keaton appears in Mom, the mother. Richard Donner was hired by the following year to direct Ladyhawke, and the two pair fell in love a year after the film was published in 1985. Radio Flyer (1992), and Timeline (2003). She made only two more of her husband's films. "If I hadn't seen how he did action films, I wouldn't have had the time or resources to even try to find an X-Men or a Constantine," she said. The Hollywood Reporter – October 15, 2008 Her association with Schumacher and Hughes prompted them to invite her to produce St. Elmo (1985) and Pretty in Pink (1986), both seminal films of the Brat Pack period. Donner had a fruitful year in 1993, with two hits, Dave, a retro political comedy, and Free Willy, a family film about a boy and his whale. X-Men Film Donner solo produced X-Men: Days of Future Past and Deadpool were the last two X-Men films Donner solo produced.