Gale Anne Hurd

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Gale Anne Hurd
Gale Anne Hurd talking about Aliens in Sweden in September 1986.
Born	October 25, 1955 (1955-10-25) (age 52) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Film producer
Spouse	James Cameron (1985–1989) Brian de Palma (1990s) Jonathan Hensleigh (early 1990s)
Children	Lolita de Palma (born 1991)[1]
Parents	Lolita Hurd (mother)

Gale Anne Hurd (born October 25, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is a Hollywood film producer.

Hurd is the daughter of a Los Angeles businessman and grew up in Palm Springs, California. She formed her own production company, Pacific Western Productions, in 1982. Hurd has produced many movies including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), and Armageddon (1998). Many of her films were directed by former husband, James Cameron, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1989. Her recent run of films however have been received poorly at the box office, including Hulk (2003), The Punisher (2004) and Æon Flux (2005).^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, she was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology at Telluride, Colorado along with Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

[edit] Partial filmography (producer)

• The Terminator (1984)
• Aliens (1986)
• Alien Nation (1988)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Tremors (1990)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• The Waterdance (1992)
• Raising Cain (1992)
• The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
• Dante's Peak (1997)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Dick (1999)
• Clockstoppers (2002)
• Hulk (2003)
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
• The Punisher (2004)
• Æon Flux (2005)
• The Incredible Hulk (2008)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gale Anne Hurd at the Internet Movie Database