Born in Leominster, MA. Third wife of Richard D. Zanuck. Co-producer with him at the Zanuck Company. Established her reputation for extraordinary taste and tenacity with her very first film, COCOON, and fortified her stature with an Academy Award for her third effort, 1989's Best Picture of the Year, DRIVING MISS DAISY. Together, these two movies have grossed in excess of $200 million, garnered 6 Oscars® out of 11 nominations between them, and twice led to Zanuck being labeled "Producer of the Year." She was only the second woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Picture when she won for DRIVING MISS DAISY in 1990. (The first was Julia Phillips in 1974, for THE STING.) Since then, Wendy Finerman won for FORREST GUMP (1994) and Donna Gigliotti won for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998). Her other notable producing credits are COCOON: THE RETURN (1988), RICH IN LOVE (1993), CLEAN SLATE (1994), WILD BILL (1995), DVOJNIK / THE DOUBLE (1995), MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996), TRUE CRIME (1999) and REIGN OF FIRE (2002). She also produced the 72nd Annual Academy Awards show in 2000. She directed RUSH (1991) and Part 3 of the TV mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon" (1998, HBO).  Best Picture of the Year 1989: DRIVING MISS DAISY - Producer at Zanuck Co. (w. Richard D. Zanuck) 1 nomination, 1 Award