Dame Frances Rosemary Walsh was born on 10 January 1959 and is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer.
12 Facts About Fran Walsh
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The partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson, Walsh has contributed to all of their films since 1989: as co-writer since Meet the Feebles, and as producer since The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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Fran Walsh has won three Academy Awards for the final film of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Fran Walsh was born into a family of Irish descent in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Fran Walsh attended Wellington Girls' College intent on becoming a fashion designer, but eventually became interested in music instead.
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Fran Walsh got her screen break writing material for New Zealand producer Grahame McLean on 1983 television film A Woman of Good Character.
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Fran Walsh met Peter Jackson in the mid-1980s during the final stages of production on his low-budget movie Bad Taste, in which aliens serve humans as fast food.
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Fran Walsh has collaborated with Jackson on the scripts of all his subsequent films, after joining the writing quartet on his next film, the dark comedy Meet the Feebles.
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Fran Walsh gave birth to Billy in 1995 and Katie in 1996.
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Fran Walsh was one of the film's producers and co-composer of two songs for Return of the King, namely "Into the West" and "A Shadow Lies Between Us", earning her one more Oscar that night.
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Fran Walsh's vocals were used as a significant part of the screech of the Nazgul in the films.
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Fran Walsh won three Academy Awards in 2004, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song, all for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.