Lisa Katselas Paré

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Lisa Katselas Paré (born February 12, 1959) is an American film producer and BAFTA Award nominee.

Katselas Pare was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and became the first wife to actor Michael Pare in 1980. The marriage was short-lived, ending two years later, but the two remained on good terms. Katselas Pare studied at both New York University and the University of Southern California, and in 1985 became a licensed attorney. After practicing Entertainment law in New York City, she joined the London-based "Compton Carr" firm, where she raised development and production financing for independent producers.

In 1987, Katselas Pare joined "Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment"^[1] on the production of Just Ask for Diamond, and in 1991 she was named as Head of Business Affairs. In 1993 she assisted in the forming of "Red Rooster Pictures", and later partnered with Stephen Bayly to form "Bayly/Pare Productions". She is best known for her first film production, Richard III in 1995, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and which starred Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Dame Maggie Smith and Robert Downey Jr.. She later produced Mrs Dalloway in 1997, a film adaptation of the 1925 Virginia Woolf novel Mrs Dalloway, starring Vanessa Redgrave. She produced the 2008 film The Colossus, starring Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon.

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↑ "Lisa Katselas Paré". mckellen.com. Retrieved November 20, 2010.

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