Gale Anne Hurd Biography
Gale Anne Hurd is an American film and television producer, the creator of Valhalla Entertainment, and a former Producers Guild of America recording secretary.
Gale Anne Hurd Age
Gale was born on October 25, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. She is 67 years old as of October 2022.
Gale Anne Hurd Education
In 1973, she graduated from Palm Springs High School. In 1977, she earned a BA in economics and communications, with a minor in political science, from Stanford University.
Gale Anne Hurd Height
She stands at a height of 5′ 4″ (1.63 m) tall.
Gale Anne Hurd Family- Parents
Hurd was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Lolita and financier Frank E. Hurd. Her father was a Jew, and her mother was a Catholic.
Gale Anne Hurd Husband- Married
Hurd was married to James Cameron from 1985 to 1989; to filmmaker Brian De Palma from 1991 to 1993, with whom she had one daughter, Lolita de Palma, in 1991; to screenwriter/director Jonathan Hensleigh since 1995; and to screenwriter/director Jonathan Hensleigh since 1995.
Gale Anne Hurd Career
She joined New World Pictures as executive assistant to the company’s president, Roger Corman. She progressed through different administrative posts before becoming involved in production.[7] She founded her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982 and went on to produce a number of box-office hits, including the James Cameron films The Terminator (1984, co-wrote the screenplay with Cameron, her sole screenwriting credit), Aliens (1986), and The Abyss (1989). Hurd with The Walking Dead cast in October 2012. She received the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1998 for remarkable women who, through their perseverance and the quality of their work, have helped to extend the position of women in the entertainment business.
In 2003, she and Arthur C. Clarke received the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado. The Walking Dead, a drama series she created, premiered on AMC in 2010. Hurd was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ board of governors in 2011. Hurd’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 3, 2012. Hurd received the Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award from the Athena Film Festival in New York City in 2013. The award recognizes her as a woman in the film business whose vision and courage established a precedent for other women to follow.
Gale Anne Hurd’s Net Worth
Hurd has an estimated net worth of 90 million dollars as of 2023.
Gale Anne Hurd Movies
2002 Clockstoppers
2003 Hulk
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2004 The Punisher
2005 Æon Flux
2007 Welcome to the Jungle
2008 The Incredible Hulk
Punisher: War Zone
2013 Very Good Girls
2018 Hell Fest
2002–2003 Adventure Inc.
2010–2022 The Walking Dead
2015–present Fear the Walking Dead
2016 Hunters
2017–2018 Lore