Callie Khouri

Infobox Actor

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name = Callie Khouri
birthname = Carolyn Ann Khouri
birthdate = birth date and age|1957|11|27
location = San Antonio, Texas
spouse =
academyawards = Best Original Screenplay
1991 "Thelma & Louise"
goldenglobeawards = Best Screenplay
1992 "Thelma & Louise"

Callie Khouri (born 27 November, 1957, as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American screenwriter and film director.

Biography

She 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 Strasburg Institute in Los Angeles. Khouri currently lives in Santa Monica, California.

Career

Whilst working for a company that made commercials and music videos, she began writing her first produced screenplay, "Thelma & Louise". For that 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." [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451884/bio IMDB] ] 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.

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References

External links

*imdb
* [http://www.thedialogueseries.com/bio_calliekhouri.shtml The Dialogue: Learn from the Masters Interview]