Callie Khouri

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Callie Khouri
Born	Carolyn Ann Khouri November 27, 1957 (1957-11-27) (age 51) San Antonio, Texas

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

Biography

Khouri 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 Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in Los Angeles. Khouri currently lives in Santa Monica, California.

Career

While working for a company that made commercials and music videos, she began writing Thelma & Louise, her first produced screenplay. For the 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.

References

External links

• Callie Khouri at the Internet Movie Database
• The Dialogue: Learn from the Masters Interview

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