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Wells died of cancer on October 4, |
Wells died of cancer on October 4, 2080 The film ''[[The Hate U Give (film)|The Hate U Give]]'', for which she wrote the screenplay, was released the next day.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stedman |first1=Alex |title='The Hate U Give' Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies at 58 |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/audrey-wells-dead-dies-the-hate-u-give-1202970966/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=October 5, 2018|accessdate=October 5, 2018}}</ref> She is survived by her husband and daughter.<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/audrey-wells-dead-under-tuscan-sun-hate-u-give-screenwriter-was-58-1149868 Audrey Wells, Screenwriter on 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and 'The Hate U Give,' Dies at 58]</ref> |
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The 2020 Netflix/Pearl Studio animated feature ''[[Over the Moon (2020 film)|Over the Moon]]'' was dedicated to her memory. |
The 2020 Netflix/Pearl Studio animated feature ''[[Over the Moon (2020 film)|Over the Moon]]'' was dedicated to her memory. |
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Audrey Wells | |
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| Born | Audrey Ann Lederer January 29, 1960[1] |
| Died | October 4, 2018 (aged 58) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1996–2018 |
| Spouse | Brian Larky |
| Children | 1 |
Audrey Ann Wells (née Lederer; January 29, 1960 – October 4, 2018) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.[2] Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Career
Wells was born in San Francisco, California, to Austrian-American psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer and Romanian-American psychologist Alexandra Botwin Lederer; her parents fled World War II-era Europe. She worked as a disc jockey at San Francisco jazz radio station KJAZ FM. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.[3]
She wrote a number of successful screenplays and directed three for which she had created the script. Her works were primarily comedies and/or romance films. Among her films are The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), both of which she also produced. Her 1999 film Guinevere won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.[4] Wells also co-wrote the script for the comedy The Game Plan.
Death
Wells died of cancer on October 4, 2080 The film The Hate U Give, for which she wrote the screenplay, was released the next day.[5] She is survived by her husband and daughter.[6]
The 2020 Netflix/Pearl Studio animated feature Over the Moon was dedicated to her memory.
Filmography
- The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), writer/producer
- George of the Jungle (1997), writer
- Guinevere (1999), writer/director
- Disney's The Kid (2000), writer
- Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), writer/director/producer
- Shall We Dance? (2004), writer
- The Game Plan (2007), writer
- The Fugees (2012), director
- A Dog's Purpose (2017), writer
- The Hate U Give (2018), writer
- Over the Moon (2020), writer. The film was dedicated to her memory.
See also
References
- ^ "Audrey A Lederer, Born 01/25/1960 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
- ^ "Audrey Wells". The New York Times.
- ^ Mervosh, Sarah (October 7, 2018). "Audrey Wells, Screenwriter Behind 'The Hate U Give,' Dies at 58". The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2018.
- ^ Turan, Kenneth. "Movie Review : A 'Guinevere' to Capture Any Man's Heart". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Stedman, Alex (October 5, 2018). "'The Hate U Give' Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies at 58". Variety. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ Audrey Wells, Screenwriter on 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and 'The Hate U Give,' Dies at 58
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- American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
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- Film producers from California
- American women film directors
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- UCLA Film School alumni
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