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Gale Anne Hurd
Birth at
25 October 1955
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Gail Ann Heard was born in Los Angeles. She began her film career at Roger Corman’s New World studio as a production manager, where she took part in several low-budget films, including Jimmy Murakami’s fantastic action movie Battle Far From the Stars (1980). On the set of this film, she met a young master of special effects James Cameron. This acquaintance eventually led to their marriage and the creation of the famous sci-fi thriller Terminator (1984), on which Heard worked already as a producer
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Gail Ann Heard was born in Los Angeles. She began her film career at Roger Corman’s New World studio as a production manager, where she took part in several low-budget films, including Jimmy Murakami’s fantastic action movie Battle Far From the Stars (1980). On the set of this film, she met a young master of special effects James Cameron. This acquaintance eventually led to their marriage and the creation of the famous sci-fi thriller Terminator (1984), on which Heard worked already as a producer and as a co-writer (together with Cameron, who insisted that he would also be a director, although the studio that gave money for the production doubted the ability of the newcomer to make a box office film). After the success of Terminator, Heard and Cameron were able to choose their own projects. Heard produced her husband’s films Aliens (1986) and The Abyss (1989), and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (though as an executive producer). Gail Ann Heard proved herself as a competent specialist in the field of genre cinema - almost all the projects she produced were commercially successful. Among the paintings in the creation of which she took part, are “Alien Nation” (1988) by Graham Baker, “The Trembling of the Earth” (1990) by Ron Underwood, “The Raising of Cain” (1992) by Brian De Palma, “Escape is impossible” (1994) by Martin Campbell, “Ghost and Darkness” (1996) by Stephen Hopkins, “The Relict” (1997) by Peter Hyams and “Dante Peak” (1997) by Roger Donaldson. Heard's last major success in the production field was Martin Bay's fantastic action movie "Armageddon", which collected in 1998 only in the American film distribution about $ 200 million.