Lindsay Doran was born on 22 June 1948 and is an American film producer and studio executive who has worked on such films as This Is Spinal Tap, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sense and Sensibility, Stranger Than Fiction, and Nanny McPhee.
13 Facts About Lindsay Doran
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Lindsay Doran was born to D A Doran, a 55-year-old veteran Hollywood executive producer.
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Lindsay Doran has a brother, Daniel, a publicist whose work includes the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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In 1967 Lindsay Doran began attending Barnard College, an all-women liberal arts college in New York City.
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Lindsay Doran moved to State College, Pennsylvania upon returning from London, where she worked for seven years with public television, first as a secretary and later as a producer and writer.
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Lindsay Doran met her husband, architectural designer Rodney Kemerer, there before returning to Los Angeles, despite her previous desire to not live in the city or work in the film business.
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Lindsay Doran worked at the Screen Actors Guild, where she "learned a lot" and soon received another job at Hollywood studio Avco Embassy Pictures, working her way up.
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When Lindsay Doran was approximately 30 years old, she became an executive at Embassy.
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Lindsay Doran developed the script for the 1991 film Dead Again, beginning a professional relationship with actress Emma Thompson that would last more than five films and 20 years.
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In 1989 Lindsay Doran became a producer at Mirage Enterprises, a studio co-founded by director-producer Sydney Pollack.
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Lindsay Doran found that in contrast to being a studio executive, the role of a producer required that she "initiate everything" rather than receive calls from others.
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Lindsay Doran suggested Sense and Sensibility to the studio, her favorite book.
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In 1996 Lindsay Doran ended her partnership with Pollack, citing a need for change, and was quickly hired as the new president and chief operating officer of small studio United Artists, replacing John Calley.