Callie Khouri
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| Born | Carolyn Ann Khouri November 27, 1957 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film/television writer, director, producer, feminist speaker |
| Spouse | David W. Warfield (1990-?: divorced) T Bone Burnett (m. 2006) |
Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri (born November 27, 1957) is a Lebanese-American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. In 1992 she won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for the film Thelma & Louise, which was controversial upon its release, but which subsequently became a classic. It was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in Dec. of 2016.
Khouri's most recent movie, Mad Money, was released in 2008. On October 10, 2012, Khouri's television series, Nashville, premiered on ABC. The critics awarded it strong reviews. In 2016, Nashville moved to CMT.
Carolyn Ann (Callie) Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas, but was brought up in Kentucky Her family name is of Christian Arab origin, meaning priest in the Arabic language. Khouri's interest in theatre arts began when she took part in high school plays. Following her graduation from St. Mary's High School in Paducah, Kentucky, she studied landscape architecture at Purdue University before changing her major to drama. Khouri dropped out of Purdue and moved to Los Angeles, California where she waited tables and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and with acting teacher, Peggy Feury. She soon realized that being an actress was not her destiny: "I can't stand people looking at me," says Khouri.
In 1985, she took her first step toward “film production by pursuing a position as a commercial and music video production assistant.” From 1996 to 1998, and from 2000 to 2002, Khouri served on the Writers Guild of America board of directors; she sat on the board of trustees of the Writer’s Guild Foundation from 2001 to 2004. She was a member of Hollywood Women's Political Committee, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Women's Media Watch Project.
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