Melissa Mathison
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Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter as well as an advocate for Tibetan independence.
She was best known for writing screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Mathison wrote The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks' 1980 children's book of the same name, and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama.
The BFG (2016), her third film project with film director Steven Spielberg, was her last film work.
Early years
Mathison was born in Los Angeles on June 3, 1950, as one of five siblings. Richard Randolph Mathison, her father, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of Newsweek. Margaret Jean (née Kieffer) Mathison, a food blogger and restaurateur of convenience stores, was her mother. Mathison attended the University of California, Berkeley, after graduating from Providence High School in 1968. Her family was friendly with Francis Ford Coppola, whose children were babysat by Mathison. Coppola offered her a job as his secretary on The Godfather Part II (1974), which she had missed during her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley.
She wrote a script for The Black Stallion, a play that was inspired by Coppola's encouragement, that captured Steven Spielberg's interest.
Personal life and death
Mathison was married to Harrison Ford from 1983 to 2004, but the couple had two children. She died of neuroendocrine cancer in Los Angeles on November 4, 2015.