Callie Khouri
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| Born | Carolyn Ann Khouri November 27, 1957 San Antonio, Texas |
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Callie Khouri (born 27 November 1957, as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American screenwriter and film director.
[edit] Biography
She was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her parents were both physicians. She grew up in Texas and Kentucky. 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.
[edit] 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."[1] 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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