Leslie Dixon

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1970-08-03 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, U.S.

Leslie Dixon

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Leslie Dixon is an American screenwriter and producer. Some of the screenplays she has written include: Outrageous Fortune, Overboard, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair, Pay It Forward, and Hairspray. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for her Freaky Friday screenplay. Dixon is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and landscaper painter Maynard Dixon. She is married to screenwriter Tom Ropelewski. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leslie Dixon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

2003

Freaky Friday

as Screenplay

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire

as Screenplay

2000

1999

1987

Overboard

as Screenplay

2007

Hairspray

as Screenplay

2000

Pay It Forward

as Screenplay

1987

2007

The Heartbreak Kid

as Screenplay

1993

Look Who's Talking Now!

as Executive Producer

1997

That Old Feeling

as Producer

1997

2005

Just Like Heaven

as Screenplay

2011

Limitless

as Producer

2011

Limitless

as Screenplay

1989

Loverboy

as Screenplay

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Small Parts

as Original Story

2014

Gone Girl

as Executive Producer

2018

Overboard

as Story

1989

Loverboy

as Executive Producer

2018

Overboard

as Screenplay

2001

Madame Doubtfire

as Original Film Writer

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