Melissa Mathison

Melissa Mathison
Born	June 3, 1950 (1950-06-03) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1970s–2000s
Spouse	Harrison Ford (1983–2004, divorced)

Melissa Mathison (born June 3, 1950) is an American film and television screenwriter.

Career

She is perhaps most notable for writing the screenplays for the films E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ; and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet.

Screenwriting filmography

Year	Title	Genre	Notes
1979	The Black Stallion	family-adventure
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	fantasy-adventure-science fiction	The line "E.T. phone home." is ranked 15th among the top 100 quotations of U.S. cinema by the American Film Institute.
	The Escape Artist	drama
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	science fiction-thriller	segment 2, "Kick the Can"; credited as "Josh Rogan"
1991	Son of the Morning Star	western	television film
1995	The Indian in the Cupboard	family-adventure
1997	Kundun	biographical-drama
2008	Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea	animated, family-adventure	storyline consultant, English-language translation

Personal life

From 1983 to 2004, Mathison was married to Harrison Ford, with whom she has two children: Malcolm Carswell Ford (born March 10, 1987) and Georgia Ford (born June 30, 1990).

External links

• Melissa Mathison at the Internet Movie Database