Fran Walsh

Frances Walsh is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film producer and also a musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson since 1987, and mother of their two children, Billy and Katie. Fran has contributed to all of Jackson's films since they married.

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Walsh was born in Wellington, New Zealand and attended Wellington Girls' High School intent on becoming a fashion designer, but eventually became interested in music instead. Occasionally taking time off to perform in a punk band named The Wallsockets, she attended Victoria University of Wellington majoring in English literature and graduated in 1981. Walsh wrote scripts for television shows such as Shark in the Park and Worzel Gummidge Down Under in the 1980s.

Academy Award: The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of...

Screenwriter: Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. Many of them also work as "script doctors," attempting to change scripts to suit directors or studios; for instance, studio management may have a complaint that the motivations of the char...

Film producer: A film producer oversees the making of movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from inception to completion of ...

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