Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri (actually: Carolyn Ann Khouri, born November 27, 1957 in San Antonio, Texas, USA) is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer.

Life

Callie Khouri grew up in both her ​​home state of Texas, but also in Kentucky. First, she planned to study landscape architecture, and inskripierte it at Purdue University. But Khouri was soon clear that she wanted to try it in the film, so they moved to Los Angeles to study drama at the local Strasburg Institute in 1982.

In the early years of her career Khouri worked as an assistant in the production of various music videos, until she succeeded overnight breakthrough in 1991. For the film drama Thelma & Louise, which should represent her film debut as a writer and producer at the same time, she was honored in 1992 with both the Oscar but also the Golden Globe Award. 2002 celebrated Khouri with the film comedy The Divine Secrets of the Ya- Ya Sisterhood also her debut as a feature film director.

2004 Khouri was a potential candidate for the position of director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but was defeated by Alfonso Cuarón Mexicans. Since 2012 she is involved as a writer and director on the ABC series Nashville.

She was married to the film producer David W. Warfield since May 1990. In 2006, she married her second husband music producer T -Bone Burnett.

Filmography

Awards

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