Sherry Lansing
Birthday:
31 July 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name:
Sherry Lee Heimann
Height:
178 cm
Sherry was born in Chicago and pursued an acting career after graduating from Northwestern University. After appearing in two films, Loving (1970) and Rio Lobo (1970), Sherry decided to leave the acting field. In 1974, Sherry joined Talent Associates, as an executive in charge of development. Three years later, she was appointed vice president in c...
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Sherry was born in Chicago and pursued an acting career after graduating from Northwestern University. After appearing in two films, Loving (1970) and Rio Lobo (1970), Sherry decided to leave the acting field. In 1974, Sherry joined Talent Associates, as an executive in charge of development. Three years later, she was appointed vice president in charge of production at Columbia. With the success that she achieved with a number of profitable movies, she was hired as President of 20th Century-Fox. In 1984, she joined Stanley R. Jaffe to form the independent production company, named Jaffee-Lansing. When Jaffee was appointed president of Paramount Communications in 1990, Sherry became Chairman of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group. Show less «
[In a 1984 "Films in Review" interview] Once you run a studio, you find that as much as you enjoy it, you're getting farther and farther awa...Show more »
[In a 1984 "Films in Review" interview] Once you run a studio, you find that as much as you enjoy it, you're getting farther and farther away from making movies. You're involved in a lot of administrative meetings, a lot of decisions about office space and parking lots, meetings with bankers and cash flow and five year plans, which is all stimulating, but you're not on the set that much, and you're two steps removed from movie making. It's the producers who are making the movie, and you're going to see the final cut. And if you go into this business because you loved making movies, the natural evolution of many presidents of film divisions is to form their own company, which means going back to movie making. It was really very orderly. I never leaped from story editor to production VP. It wasn't unusual: I worked and got promoted to the next step, and then worked some more, and got promoted to the next step Show less «
[In a 1984 interview] To anyone, providing they had a passion for it. It's very tough to get a movie made, and you better really love what y...Show more »
[In a 1984 interview] To anyone, providing they had a passion for it. It's very tough to get a movie made, and you better really love what you're doing, or you'll fall by the wayside. But if you love what you're doing, it is the most thrilling and satisfying profession in the world. Show less «
[In a 1989 interview] People see a big period piece and costumes and say, "Oh, my God!" They see Wall Street (1987) and don't realize how di...Show more »
[In a 1989 interview] People see a big period piece and costumes and say, "Oh, my God!" They see Wall Street (1987) and don't realize how difficult it is to make Gordon Gekko look like Gordon Gekko. Show less «
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