Beth Landau

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Elizabeth Landau^[1] (born November 1967) is an American film maker, who has produced documentaries such as 1999's Does Life Get Better After 30?.

Landau was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her childhood there in the 70's, in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s, and then back to Memphis. Landau graduated at the University of Texas at Austin. She traveled all over the globe, participating in various foreign exchange programs, before moving back to Dallas for a short time. Landau then settled down in the Village (in NYC) before marrying Andy Breckman and moving to Madison, a small suburban town in New Jersey.

In May 2002 she organized a trip to Memphis for New York City firefighters in gratitude for their service in the September 11 attacks. This trip was the subject of a story in the October 15 episode of This American Life, "Middlemen", and resulted in her being the recipient of one of the New York Post's Liberty Medal Awards in 2003.

She is the second wife of Andy Breckman and appeared briefly on Monk, a television show he produces, in the fourth-season episode "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk". Her name was used for a murdered English teacher in the season 2 episode "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School".

Ms. Landau (who retained her maiden name) has two children: Molly Breckman, born September 7, 2005, and Evan Breckman, also born in September, of 2006. She has three stepchildren from her husband's previous marriage: Josh, Rachel, and Julie.

In 2011, Landau and her husband were a featured couple in the documentary When Strangers Click, a film about internet dating.

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↑ "Profile at IMDB".

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