Callie Khouri
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| Born | Carolyn Ann Khouri November 27, 1957 San Antonio, Texas |
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Callie Khouri (born November 27, 1957, as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.
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[edit] Biography
Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her father was a physician who trained in Louisville, where he met her mother. He subsequently served in the U.S. Army at Fort Bliss in El Paso, then entered private practice in Paducah, Kentucky. Following her graduation from high school there, she first studied landscape architecture at Purdue University but became interested in drama. Post college, she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in Los Angeles. Khouri currently lives in Santa Monica, California.
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While working for a company that made commercials and music videos, she began writing Thelma & Louise, her first produced screenplay. For the script, she won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 1992. At the Oscar ceremony, she said "Those of you who wanted a happy ending to Thelma & Louise: This is it."[1] She also wrote Something to Talk About. She co-wrote and directed Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; and Mad Money, a crime-caper film starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes.
Hollis & Rae: Harold Sylvester (Wendell on "City of Angels") is set to play boss to Laura Harris's character in the 2006 ABC drama pilot, about two 30-year-old best friends (Harris, Jaime Ray Newman), a detective and a prosecuting attorney, who tackle criminal cases in a small southern town. His character, Lt. Dupree, is described in the casting notice as: "40-60. Rae's superior, the head guy in the squad room, Lt. Dupree is a tough, no-nonsense, often angry fellow who is displeased to learn that his detectives have not come up with one lead on a vital case. His ire only increases when levity on the part of one of the cops sneaks into the discussion. Speaks With A Southern Accent." Frank Grillo and Issac Webster also star in the project, which comes from Touchstone Television, writer/director Callie Khouri and executive producer Steven Bochco.
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| Preceded by Bruce Joel Rubin for Ghost |
Academy Award for Writing, Best Original Screenplay 1991 for Thelma and Louise |
Succeeded by Neil Jordan for The Crying Game |
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